Underground in Berlin
Subtitle: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
By: Marie Jalowicz Simon ; translated by Anthea Bell
Contributors: Bell, Anthea, translator
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780345809698
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Jews; Biography; History; Holocauste, 1939-1945; Récits personnels; Juifs; Biographies; Histoire; Rettung; Juden
Work titles: Untergetaucht
Description: "Shortly before her death in 1998, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Foundation, recorded Marie [Jalowicz Simon] telling her story. Underground in Berlin was put together by the author Irene Stratenwerth and Hermann Simon from those tapes"--Jacket of first US edition.
Notes: Translation of: Untergetaucht.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: I was to learn how to assert myself : childhood and youth in Berlin; title: Alone in the city wastes : forced labour for Siemens; title: A rainbow of unimaginable beauty : attempts at flight ; going underground; title: The enemy is doing all this to us : the first winter in hiding; title: I was the girl without a name : after 1943 : something like a normal life; title: I didn't have to surrender : the war is over; title: Afterword.