Portrait of a Young Forger: An Incredible True Story of Triumph over the Third Reich - Hardcover

Pretzel, Marian M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1877961604 ISBN 13: 9781877961601

Publisher: Knightsbridge Pub Co Trade, 1990

Synopsis

A memoir of survival and courage during World War II describes how the author, then a young art student, used his talent for forgery to elude the Nazis and to rescue others from behind Nazi lines

About this title

From Library Journal:

Published in Australia in 1985 as By My Own Authority, this edition is introduced by Simon Wiesenthal, who played a role in the author's escape from Janowska labor camp in Poland in 1941. Essentially, however, Pretzel survived the German occupation of his native Poland by his own wit. When the killing of the Jews started, Pretzel used his talents as an artist to forge German documents for himself and some friends. He relives with gusto his escapades in a German soldier's uniform. The reader cannot help but admire the imagination, determination, and plain chutzpah of the boy. To his credit, he used his unique skills to save the lives of his friends, and, finally, to rescue from certain deportation a young Hungarian Jewish woman. This is a real-life, historically accurate, well-written suspense thriller. For Holocaust collections and larger libraries.
- Gerda Haas, Holocaust Human Rights Ctr. of Maine, Augusta
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knightsbridge Pub Co Trade
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1877961604
• ISBN 13: 9781877961601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 343