- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Biography / Autobiography
Full Description
Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II. Born in Kiev to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Sophia Williams chose to be identified as Jewish when she was eligible for a Soviet passport, mandatory at the age of sixteen, little realizing the life-changing consequences of her decision. Only seventeen when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Sophia left Kiev, unwittingly escaping the Babi Yar massacre. On her journey into Russia, she fled from flooding, dodged fires and bombs, and fell in love. At Stalingrad, Sophia turned back in a futile attempt to return home to her mother. Stranded in a Nazi-occupied town, accepted as a Russian, she found work with a sympathetic German officer and felt secure until a local girl recognized her as a Jew. Within days, Sophia's boss spirited her to safety with his family in Poland. Soon, though, Sophia was on the run again, this time to Nazi Germany, where, befriended by Germans and Hungarians, she somehow escaped detection through the rest of the war. She met and married a like-minded German soldier and started a family and business. The business thrived in post-war Germany, but the marriage deteriorated. She divorced her adulterous husband, but the vindictive, even homicidal Guido continued to dog her steps. Throughout, Sophia maintained her grit, charm, and optimism, the qualities that saved her as she time and again made her "escape into danger."
Contents
Part I: Spring of Youth
1 Full of Spunk
2 "Let It Rot!"
3 Politics
4 Internationalka
5 An Omen Fulfilled
Part II: The Steppes Aflame
6 Partings
7 Flagship Stalin
8 Narrow Escapes
9 Flight to the East
10 The Turning Point
11 My Purse!
12 Stranded
13 Waiting for the Enemy
Part III: German Occupation
14 Facing the Invaders
15 To Register—or Not?
16 A Promotion
17 "You Haven't Lost Everything."
18 German Studies
19 A Lamb in Spring
20 Rescued
Part IV: Eye of the Hurricane
21 On a Nazi Train
22 "Good Little Farmer"
23 A Red Silk Camisole
24 Lord of the Manor
25 Red Cross Nurse
26 The Truth Comes Out
Part V: Inside Nazi Germany
27 Nemesis on Horseback
28 Found!
29 A Proposal
30 Beethoven's Fifth
31 Hope
32 Half-Crazy, or in Love
33 Crisscrossing the Third Reich
34 "Imagine, Running into You!"
35 Off to the Alps
Part VI: Postwar Germany
36 Liberated by the Americans
37 A Changed Man
38 Ten Centimes Short
39 Pedaling through the Slush
40 A Twenty-Mark Fine
41 In the Cards
42 Bird in a Maze
43 A Double Rainbow
