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Gone to Ground: One woman´s extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
Marie Jalowicz-Simon
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Description for Gone to Ground: One woman´s extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
Paperback. Editor(s): Stratenwerth, Irene; Simon, Hermann. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BM; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty 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. ... Read more
Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781254158
SKU
V9781781254158
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About Marie Jalowicz-Simon
Marie Jalowicz Simon was born in 1922 and came from a middle-class Jewish family. She escaped the ghettos and concentration camps that claimed the lives of so many other Jews during the Second World War, by living in hiding in Berlin. After the war she taught classics and philosophy at the Berlin Humboldt University, but rarely spoke about her past. ... Read more
Reviews for Gone to Ground: One woman´s extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
A remarkable, unsentimental book ... Gone to Ground is a memorably good book, and Jalowicz's voice - perceptive, humane, determined - comes across on every page.
Caroline Moorehead
Guardian
Remarkable ... fascinating ... She is a female voice from the horrors of the Second World War and it is good that voice lives on.
Louise Jury ... Read more
Caroline Moorehead
Guardian
Remarkable ... fascinating ... She is a female voice from the horrors of the Second World War and it is good that voice lives on.
Louise Jury ... Read more