To Tell at Last: Survival Under False Identity, 1941-45"Searing. . . . With an even hand and understated prose, Ms. Rosenberg, now a New York City psychotherapist, bravely depicts Nazi carnage in chilling detail." -- Susan Shapiro, New York Times Book Review "[A] harrowing account of intrigue and danger with all the elements of a war movie adventure." -- Miriam Rinn, The Forward This memoir of how a Jewish woman survived Nazi Germany by passing as an Aryan was selected as the best book on Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Literature by the Israeli committee of the Egit Grants. |
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... girls could afford . There were only a few Jewish girls there when I entered at the age of eleven . At first my parents were able , with some difficul- ty , to pay my tuition , but then months came when they could not give me the forty ...
... girls could afford . There were only a few Jewish girls there when I entered at the age of eleven . At first my parents were able , with some difficul- ty , to pay my tuition , but then months came when they could not give me the forty ...
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... girl , I would never be admitted . Because I was so naive and enthusiastic , I thought I could overcome all the quotas set by Polish universities . I applied for the entry exami- nation at the University of Warsaw . I chose to forget ...
... girl , I would never be admitted . Because I was so naive and enthusiastic , I thought I could overcome all the quotas set by Polish universities . I applied for the entry exami- nation at the University of Warsaw . I chose to forget ...
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... girl who had interested him romantically , and this kind of relationship was new to him . I was rather shy , though anxious to be sexually awak- ened . Wolf introduced me to books , mainly translations from Russian classics . His ...
... girl who had interested him romantically , and this kind of relationship was new to him . I was rather shy , though anxious to be sexually awak- ened . Wolf introduced me to books , mainly translations from Russian classics . His ...
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... girl ready for truly romantic love . For the first time , I permitted myself to question my choice of a husband . I began to think about a divorce and a new beginning with Sam . But I did not want to hurt my parents , my in - laws , or ...
... girl ready for truly romantic love . For the first time , I permitted myself to question my choice of a husband . I began to think about a divorce and a new beginning with Sam . But I did not want to hurt my parents , my in - laws , or ...
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Contents
How War Came to Us | 9 |
The New Order | 17 |
Present and Past | 26 |
Ghetto 1 | 32 |
Ghetto 2 | 39 |
Crushing the Ghetto | 47 |
The Ghetto End and Escape | 61 |
Lwow | 80 |
Warsaw | 89 |
Back to Lwow | 100 |
Warsaw Again | 114 |
Heidelberg | 138 |
Aftermath | 157 |
Epilogue | 169 |
Index | 172 |
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