| Edition |
First Da Capo Press edition. |
| Description |
xi, 220 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Note |
First published in Germany, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220). |
| Contents |
Heading home -- Looking like everyone else -- Prison regulations -- The death of a tree -- The drunken policeman -- Our flat is searched -- The bomb -- The decent young Aryan -- Living like God in France -- Adam and Evchen -- A one-year sentence -- 'Degenerate art' -- Mimicry -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- The waiting room without hope -- At the lathe -- The compulsory oath of disclosure -- Night shift from six till six -- 'Date of deportation: 2 June 1942' -- The postcard -- Graphic artist wanted -- How to forge a stamp -- Illusions -- The appendix operation -- Dr Franz Kaufmann -- 'Just say my name is Rogoff' -- Gerda -- An orderly existence -- Hunting for rooms -- The sailing boat -- Tatjana -- The escape artist -- Fortune oblige -- Helene Jacobs -- Boldness doesn't always pay -- Betrayed -- The bicycle -- A long farewell to Berlin -- The beginning of the end in Berlin-6 September 1943 -- Where am I actually heading? -- My first checkpoint -- Man proposes, God disposes -- The forbidden frontier. |
| Summary |
In Nazi Germany, twenty-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schonhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daringly adventurous life, replete with fine restaurants and beautiful women, all the while managing to elude the Nazis. Breathtakingly bold, Schonhaus talked his way out of an arrest, defended Jewish diners being harassed by the police, and ultimately fled Germany by bicycling to Switzerland. Schonhaus's story-his courageous exploits that saved so many while others around him were deported, one by one, to the concentration camps-is an astonishing tale of wartime heroism and survival. |
| Subject |
Schönhaus, Cioma, 1922-2015
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.
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Identification cards -- Forgeries -- Germany.
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Forgery -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives, German.
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| Added Author |
Neiss, Marion.
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| Added Title |
Passfälscher. English
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| ISBN |
9780786720583 |
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0786720581 |
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