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Soaring Underground

A Young Fugitive's Life in Nazi Berlin

By: Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith

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Soaring Underground

A Young Fugitive's Life in Nazi Berlin

By: Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith

Orbach's memoir is a stylish and inspiring account of his life in Berlin's underworld of "divers" where young Jews survived by street smarts and an indomitable spirit which he delicately portrays. After his father is arrested and his mother and sister go into hiding, the young man is left to his own devices finding company among other survivors who outwit the Nazis in surreal adventures. Finally, betrayed by an informer, Orbach is sent to Auschwitz. But, as he says himself, he has left that part of his journey for others to tell, concentrating instead on the humanity and faith which he found on Berlin's streets. Distributed by Paul and Company. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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356

Publisher

Howells House

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ISBN 10

0929590155

ISBN 13

9780929590158

Young Lothar

An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin

By: Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith

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Young Lothar

An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin

By: Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith

His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters - entered Berlin's underworld of 'divers'. He scraped a living by hustling pool, cheating in poker and stealing - fighting, literally, to stay alive. Outwardly he became a cagey amoral street thug, inwardly he was a sensitive, romantic boy, devoted son and increasingly religious Jew, clinging to his humanity. In the end, he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz, on the last transport, in 1944. This singular coming of age story of life in the Berlin underground during WWII is, in essence, a story of hope, even happiness, in the very heart of darkness.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786721732

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9781786721730