Sheltered from the swastika
Subtitle: memoir of a Jewish boy's survival amid horror in World War II
By: Peter Kory
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers; McFarland
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780786470457
Subjects: Jewish refugees; Escapes; Jewish Personal narratives; Immigrants; France; Brussels (Belgium); Underground movements; Jewish children in the Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945; Berlin (Germany); Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: "In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending on who was hunting him at the time. Nine years old and his world had collapsed. It was 1939 and Hitler had unleashed the Blitzkrieg--bombs were exploding around him, changing everything. This moment of terror catapulted him into an epic nine-year adventure during the Second World War. He was forced to abandon his home, his family and his childhood. Like a bad dream from which he could not awake, he began an alternate existence--that of a refugee, prey for the Nazis, part of old French nobility, a resistance participant and a rebellious orphan. But most of all, he learned how to be a survivor"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.