On the Run in Nazi Berlin - A Memoir Lewyn BertPaperback / softback
On the Run in Nazi Berlin - A Memoir Lewyn BertPaperback / softback BERLIN, 1942. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes…
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On the Run in Nazi Berlin - A Memoir Lewyn BertPaperback / softback
BERLIN, 1942. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes underground. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort.
Without proper identity papers, he survives as a hunted Jew in the flames and terror of Nazi Berlin in part by successfully mimicking non-Jews, even masquerading as an SS officer. He finds shelter sometimes with compassionate civilians, sometimes with people who find his skills useful and sometimes in the cellars of bombed-out buildings. But the Gestapo are hot on his trail...Before World War II, 160,000 Jews lived in Berlin.
By 1945, only 3,000 remained alive. Bert was one of the few, and his thrilling memoir--from witnessing the famous 1933 book burning to the aftermath of the war in