Underground in Berlin : a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
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Knopf Canada,
Toronto, Ontario :
2015.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
"The story of a young Jewish woman who ripped off her yellow star and survived the war by going underground from 1942 to 1945. Berlin, 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a 19-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie decides to survive. She takes off the yellow star, turns her back on the Jewish community and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost 20 different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, and many of those she stays with expect services in return. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists and even convinced Nazis. Any false move might lead to arrest. Never certain who can be trusted and how far, it is her quick-witted determination and the most amazing and hair-raising strokes of luck that ensure her survival. Marie's extraordinary story, told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, for the first time after more than 50 years of silence. Marie Jalowicz Simon, daughter of a Jewish lawyer, was born in Berlin in 1922. After the liberation in 1945, she remained in Berlin and was professor of Ancient Literature and Cultural History at the Humboldt University. Her son, Hermann Simon, asked his mother to recount her story of survival on audio tapes. Marie Jalowicz Simon died in 1998 in Berlin"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780345809698 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 368 pages : illustrations, portrait.print
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Knopf Canada, 2015.
- General Note: Translation of: Untergetaucht.