Mischka's War : A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York EPUB
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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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.
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- Pages:320 pages, 25 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781786722546
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:320 pages, 25 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781786722546
