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A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Little Brown & Company
September 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
Featuring: Marie Jalowicz Simon
363 pages
ISBN: 0316382094
EAN: 9780316382090
Kindle: B00S5A6HPE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced labor, and extermination. Marie took off her yellow star, turned her back on the Jewish community, and vanished into the city. In the years that followed, Marie lived under an assumed identity, forced to accept shelter wherever she found it. Always on the run, never certain whom she could trust, Marie moved between almost twenty different safe-houses, living with foreign workers, staunch communists, and even committed Nazis. Only her quick-witted determination and the most hair-raising strokes of luck allowed her to survive.
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