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Author Simon, Marie, 1922-1998.

Title Underground in Berlin : a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany / Marie Jalowicz Simon ; translated by Anthea Bell ; foreword and afterword by Hermann Simon.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 SIMON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. SIMON, M.    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  940.5318 SIMON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  940.5318 SIMON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  940.53 SIM    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5318 SIMON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5318 SIM    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 SI54    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B SIMON, M.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  940.5318 SIM    Check Shelf

Edition First United States edition.
Description xi, 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note "Shortly before her death in 1998, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Foundation, recorded Marie [Jalowicz Simon] telling her story. Underground in Berlin was put together by the author Irene Stratenwerth and Hermann Simon from those tapes"--Jacket.
Includes index.
Contents Prologue, 1942 -- I was to learn to assert myself : childhood and youth in Berlin -- Alone in the icy wastes : forced labor for Siemens -- A rainbow of unimaginable beauty : attempts at flight ; going to ground -- The enemy is doing all this to us : the first winter in hiding -- I was the girl without a name : after 1943, something like a normal life -- I didn't have to surrender : the war is over.
Summary Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
Language Translation of: Untergetaucht : eine junge Frau überlebt in Berlin, 1940-1945.
Subject Simon, Marie, 1922-1998.
Jewish women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Berlin.
National socialism -- Germany -- Berlin.
Simon, Marie, 1922-1998. (OCoLC)fst01929081
Jewish women. (OCoLC)fst00983062
Jews -- Persecutions. (OCoLC)fst00983322
National socialism. (OCoLC)fst01033761
Germany -- Berlin. (OCoLC)fst01204829
Simon, Marie, 1922-1998.
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Added Author Stratenwerth, Irene.
Simon, Hermann, 1949-
Added Title Untergetaucht. English
ISBN 9780316382090 (hardcover)
0316382094 (hardcover)
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