Title: A smile in one eye
Description: "The Wobsers are prosperous, churchgoing, and patriotic Germans living in a small East Prussian town. When Hitler seizes power, their comfortable family life is destroyed by a horrifying Nazi regime. Baptized and confirmed as Lutherans, they are told they are Jewish, a past always respected but rarely considered. This distinction makes a life-and-death difference. Suddenly, it is no longer a matter of faith or religion; their lives are defined by race. It is a matter of bloodlines. And, in Nazi Germany, they have the wrong blood"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Creative nonfiction, Refugees, History, Social conditions
Places: Prussia, East (Poland and Russia), Europe, East Prussia (Poland and Russia)