Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany - Softcover
By turns thrilling and terrifying, Underground in Berlin is the autobiographical account of a young Jewish woman who ripped off her yellow star and survived the war by going underground from 1942 to 1945.
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 decides to survive. She takes off the yellow star, turns her back on the Jewish community and vanishes into the city.
In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost 20 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. Never certain who can be trusted and how far, it is her quick-witted determination and the most amazing and hair-raising strokes of luck that ensure her survival.
Underground in Berlin is Marie's extraordinary story, told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, for the first time after more than 50 years of silence.
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 decides to survive. She takes off the yellow star, turns her back on the Jewish community and vanishes into the city.
In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost 20 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. Never certain who can be trusted and how far, it is her quick-witted determination and the most amazing and hair-raising strokes of luck that ensure her survival.
Underground in Berlin is Marie's extraordinary story, told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, for the first time after more than 50 years of silence.
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About the Author:
MARIE JALOWICZ SIMON, daughter of a Jewish lawyer, born in Berlin in 1922, survived the period of National Socialism by going underground in Berlin. After the liberation in 1945, she remained in Berlin and was professor of Ancient Literature and Cultural History at the Humboldt University. Her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin-Centrum Judaicum, asked his mother to recount her story of survival on 77 tapes.
Marie Jalowicz Simon died in 1998 in Berlin.
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Marie Jalowicz Simon died in 1998 in Berlin.
Praise for Underground in Berlin:
"[Underground in Berlin] is a memorably good book, and Jalowicz's voice--perceptive, humane, determined--comes across on every page." Caroline Moorehead, The Guardian
"Few Jews who went underground in Berlin survived. Fewer still have told their stories. [Underground in Berlin] is a significant addition to Second World War history. . . . This account of one Jew's survival in Nazi Germany will remain with readers long after they have turned the last page." Adelia Neufeld Wiens, Winnipeg Free Press
"A crisp, detailed memoir. . . . A coolly told story of a harrowing time and a young woman's struggle to survive." Kirkus Reviews
"Absolutely gripping. . . . Marie Jalowicz-Simon details for the first time with total honesty the harsh sexual politics of survival in the Berlin underground." Thomas Ertman, New York University, author of Birth of the Leviathan
"Described here with penetrating insight and frankness . . . with delicious, novelistic detail." Maclean's
"[Underground in Berlin] is a memorably good book, and Jalowicz's voice--perceptive, humane, determined--comes across on every page." Caroline Moorehead, The Guardian
"Few Jews who went underground in Berlin survived. Fewer still have told their stories. [Underground in Berlin] is a significant addition to Second World War history. . . . This account of one Jew's survival in Nazi Germany will remain with readers long after they have turned the last page." Adelia Neufeld Wiens, Winnipeg Free Press
"A crisp, detailed memoir. . . . A coolly told story of a harrowing time and a young woman's struggle to survive." Kirkus Reviews
"Absolutely gripping. . . . Marie Jalowicz-Simon details for the first time with total honesty the harsh sexual politics of survival in the Berlin underground." Thomas Ertman, New York University, author of Birth of the Leviathan
"Described here with penetrating insight and frankness . . . with delicious, novelistic detail." Maclean's
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- PublisherVintage Canada
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 034580970X
- ISBN 13 9780345809704
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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