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An Underground Life. Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin.
Gad Beck
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Paperback. That Gad Beck, a gay Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is amazing. His determination to keep loving, living and believing in every human possibility - even in the face of the unthinkably monstrous - makes this quite a different story of the Holocaust. Translator(s): Brown, Allison. Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 23 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSK2; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out of the country is amazing. It was love that gave him both the impetus and the strength to fight. The rise of National Socialism was tearing his family apart, destroying his school, thwarting his dream of emigration to Israel. Then the Nazis came for Manfred Lewin, Beck's first love, and for his family. ... Read more
That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out of the country is amazing. It was love that gave him both the impetus and the strength to fight. The rise of National Socialism was tearing his family apart, destroying his school, thwarting his dream of emigration to Israel. Then the Nazis came for Manfred Lewin, Beck's first love, and for his family. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299165048
SKU
V9780299165048
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