Between Persecution and Participation: Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. A. Topf & SöhneThis is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two thirds of the twentieth century. The son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Willy Wiemokli (1908 1983) was declared a half Jew by the laws of the Third Reich, and because of this, he and his father were briefly interned in Buchenwald. Although his father was eventually executed in Auschwitz in 1943, Willy went on to become an accountant for