Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
by Marie Jalowicz-Simon
A young Jewish woman’s remarkable account of how she survived the second world war living undocumented in Berlin.
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“She survived in hiding in Berlin, living as an ‘illegal’, and her account shows her own quick-wittedness, her capacity to evade recognition, to think quickly in difficult situations, to have a get-out, to find ways of surviving, and her sheer good luck on occasion. I also think her story also highlights the widespread goodness and kindness and willingness to take risks of many people, as well as the difficulties of evading those who might betray her as she moved on from one place to another. This is a very different sort of story from Anne Frank’s.” Read more...
Mary Fulbrook, Historian
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