The woman from Hamburg and other true stories
By: by Hanna Krall ; translated by Madeline G. Levine.
Contributors: Levine, Madeline G.
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Anecdotes.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Anecdotes.; Holocaust survivors -- Biography.; Jews -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.; Anecdotes.
Description: "In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing will reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk, the ghost of his half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. A high-ranking German officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessing a mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland. And in the title story, which was excerpted in The New Yorker, a signmaker's daughter learns that her mother is not the woman who raised her but a mysterious stranger living in Germany."--BOOK JACKET.