Young Lothar : An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin

Orbach, Larry/ Orbach-Smith, Vivien

I.B. Tauris（2017/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781784537630
• DDC分類 943.155086092

Full Description

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.

Contents

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
ORIGINAL PREFACE
PROLOGUE
1. BORN IN A GATHERING STORM
2. THE INSTITUTE ORBACH
3. WE ARE GOING UNDER
4. SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT
5. A VERY BUSY DAY
6. LEARNING THE ANGLES
7. HOUSEGUESTS
8. STACKING THE DECK WITH OPA
9. WARMED BY AN OLD FLAME
10. FROM STREET TO SANCTUARY
11. HAULING COAL, LIFTING CASH
12. VICE SQUAD
13. A PAUSE FOR PASSOVER
14. LEARNING TO SWIM
15. BETRAYAL
16. VIGNETTES OF HELL
17. PICKING UP THE PIECES
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS