Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin
A life in illegality and with a foreign identity
In 1933, when she is ten, Berliner Inge Deutschkron learns that she is a Jew. At first her family is at greater risk for their leftist politics than because they are Jews. Her father flees to England; Inge and her mother hide in plain sight as non-Jews, dependent on the underground network for their survival, in constant danger of discovery or betrayal. Otto Weidt employed Inge in the office of his workshop for the blind. Toward the end of the war, Inge and her mother manage to leave Berlin, and eventually emigrate to England. Inge Deutschkron became an Israeli citizen and an editor of Maariv.
- A document about disenfranchisement, persecution, deportation and death, about illegality and loss of identity and at the same time about silent human readiness to help
Inge Deutschkron was born in 1922 near Cottbus and became a journalist after the war. She stayed in England, India, Burma, Nepal, Indonesia and Israel. Since 1955, she has been a journalist in Germany and, since 1958, worked as a correspondent for the Israel newspaper 'Maariv'. In 1966, she acquired the Israel nationality and was a member of the editorial staff of 'Maariv' until her retirement in 1987. She now lives in Berlin.
Inge Deutschkron received numerous awards, amongst them the Carl-von-Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics in 2008, who stated her "life's work is the sign of the continuing commitment to democracy and human rights and against all forms of racism."
