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Author Gross, Leonard

Title Last Jews in Berlin
Published Open Road Media, 2015

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Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Author's Note -- Foreword -- I Down to Darkness -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- II Hunted -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- III Capture -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- 28 -- 29 -- 30 -- 31 -- 32 -- 33 -- 34 -- IV Deliverance -- 35 -- 36 -- 37 -- 38 -- 39 -- 40 -- 41 -- 42 -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright Page
Summary The incredible but little-known true story of the Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin at the height of World War II & mdash;and lived to tell the tale When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately one hundred sixty thousand Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than five thousand remained in the nation & rsquo;s capital, the epicenter of Nazism, and by the end of the war, that number had dwindled to one thousand. All the others had died in air raids, starved to death, committed suicide, or been shipped off to the death camps. In this captivating and harrowing book, Leonard Gross details the real-life stories of a dozen Jewish men and women who spent the final twenty-seven months of World War II underground, hiding in plain sight, defying both the Gestapo and, even worse, Jewish & ldquo;catchers & rdquo; ready to report them to the Nazis in order to avoid the gas chambers themselves. A teenage orphan, a black-market jewel trader, a stylish young designer, and a progressive intellectual were among the few who managed to survive. Through their own resourcefulness, bravery, and at times, sheer luck, these Jews managed to evade the tragic fates of so many others. Gross has woven these true stories of perseverance into a heartbreaking, suspenseful, and moving account with the narrative force of a thriller. Compiled from extensive interviews, The Last Jews in Berlin reveals these individuals & rsquo; astounding determination, against all odds, to live each day knowing it could be their last
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Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Berlin
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Germany -- Berlin
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Germany -- Berlin
Genre/Form Downloadable e-Books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1322335419
9781322335414
9781497689381
1497689384