Orbach - Smith Vivien - Young Lothar An Underground Fugitive In Nazi Berlin - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: His promising education was aborted; his close - knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters - entered Berlin's underworld of 'divers'. He scraped a living by hustling pool cheating in poker and stealing - fighting literally to stay alive. Outwardly he became a cagey amoral street thug inwardly he was a sensitive romantic boy devoted son and increasingly religious Jew clinging to his humanity. In the end he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz on the last transport in 1944. This singular coming of age story of life in the Berlin underground during WWII is in essence a story of hope even happiness in the very heart of darkness.
Title: Young Lothar An Underground Fugitive In Nazi Berlin
Author(s): Orbach - Smith Vivien
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784537630
Pages: 288 Pages, 4 Bw
Publication Date: 9/26/2017
Category: Second World War