Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Autor Marie Jalowicz Simon Traducere de Anthea Bell Cuvânt înainte de Hermann Simonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 sep 2015
In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, and disappeared into the city.
In the years that followed, Marie took shelter wherever it was offered, living with the strangest of bedfellows, from circus performers and committed communists to convinced Nazis. As Marie quickly learned, however, compassion and cruelty are very often two sides of the same coin.
Fifty years later, Marie agreed to tell her story for the first time. Told in her own voice with unflinching honesty,Underground in Berlinis a book like no other, of the surreal, sometimes absurd day-to-day life in wartime Berlin. This might be just one woman's story, but it gives an unparalleled glimpse into what it truly means to be human.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316382090
ISBN-10: 0316382094
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316382094
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Marie
Jalowicz
Simon
was
born
in
1922
into
a
middle-class
Jewish
family.
She
escaped
the
ghettos
and
concentration
camps
during
the
Second
World
War
by
hiding
in
Berlin.
After
the
war
she
was
full
professor
of
the
literary
cultural
history
of
classical
antiquity
at
the
Berlin
Humboldt
University.
Shortly
before
her
death,
her
son,
Hermann
Simon,
director
of
the
New
Synagogue
Berlin
Foundation-Centrum
Judaicum,
recorded
Marie
telling
her
story.
He
will
act
as
spokesperson
for
the
book.
Recenzii
AWashington
PostNotable
Non-Fiction
Book
of
2015
"The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered."—Gerard DeGroot,Washington Post
"Captivating....Jalowicz's story is unquestionably tragic in so many ways, but is also full of miracles, hope, and a future."—Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"Marie Jalowicz Simon transports the reader right to wartime Berlin. Even seventy years later, her voice is young, fresh, and gripping. Her story is by turns funny, wise, and horrific. I felt like she was reaching out to me across time and I couldn't help but fall in love with her. Despite the incredible dangers she faced living underground in Nazi Berlin, Marie's story is incredibly life-affirming and at times, even joyful."
—Clara Kramer, author of Clara's War
"An absolutely gripping account of one young woman's struggle to escape deportation at the hands of the Nazis and of those who helped her. Marie Jalowicz-Simon details for the first time with total honesty the harsh sexual politics of survival in the Berlin underground."
—Thomas Ertman, New York University, author of Birth of the Leviathan
"The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered."—Gerard DeGroot,Washington Post
"Captivating....Jalowicz's story is unquestionably tragic in so many ways, but is also full of miracles, hope, and a future."—Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"Marie Jalowicz Simon transports the reader right to wartime Berlin. Even seventy years later, her voice is young, fresh, and gripping. Her story is by turns funny, wise, and horrific. I felt like she was reaching out to me across time and I couldn't help but fall in love with her. Despite the incredible dangers she faced living underground in Nazi Berlin, Marie's story is incredibly life-affirming and at times, even joyful."
—Clara Kramer, author of Clara's War
"An absolutely gripping account of one young woman's struggle to escape deportation at the hands of the Nazis and of those who helped her. Marie Jalowicz-Simon details for the first time with total honesty the harsh sexual politics of survival in the Berlin underground."
—Thomas Ertman, New York University, author of Birth of the Leviathan