ABSTRACT
Helmut Eschwege, an East German-Jewish historian of the Holocaust, presents a fascinating and largely overlooked case of conflicted identities: communist, Jew, and historian. Eschwege’s work was exceptional both in that he was a historian who worked outside of institutional boundaries and in that his own life demonstrated many of the tensions and complexities in German-Jewish history, Jewish identity, and Holocaust memory in the German Democratic Republic. 1
