On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS - the authors of such atrocities - Mischka volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. Surviving Hitler's Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany, where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the exceptional Heidelberg Physics Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to the US by a Jewish survivor whom his mother, Olga, had saved during Riga's worst period of Jewish arrests. As refugee experiences go, Mischka was among the lucky ones - but even luck leaves scars. The author Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as a memoirist to telling the remarkable story of Mischka's odyssey and survival.
Sobre o autor(a)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila
A professora e ensaísta Sheila Fitzpatrick nasceu na Austrália, em 1941. É autora de uma dezena de livros, entre eles A revolução russa, publicado pela Todavia em 2017. |
| ISBN | 9781350239180 |
| Autor(a) | Fitzpatrick, Sheila |
| Editora | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Ano de edição | 2021 |
| Páginas | 256 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 21,60 X 14,00 |