num_pages: 274
description: In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another, embarked on an ecstatic affair, exchanging letters and poems and even signing a marriage contract. After only a year, their happiness was destroyed by the Felice was taken away to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Lilly received a last letter from Felice in 1945. Erica Fisher has documented this extraordinary story after spending countless hours talking to 80-year-old Lilly, and to friends and acquaintances of the two women. Her account, together with a collection of photographs, is a witness to an unusual love in a time of extremes.
language: English
title: Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
titlecomplete: Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
characters: Lilly Wust (Aimee), Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar)
genres: LGBT, Historical, History, Lesbian, World War II, Holocaust, Biography, Romance, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 4194
places: Berlin
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Bloomsbury