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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Page xii
... husband Tom showed such interest in the story that they helped me stick with the project . I thank them heartily . Thanks also to my dear friends Sheila and Louis Menashe , Joel Agee , and Elsa Leichter . They spent many hours ...
... husband Tom showed such interest in the story that they helped me stick with the project . I thank them heartily . Thanks also to my dear friends Sheila and Louis Menashe , Joel Agee , and Elsa Leichter . They spent many hours ...
Page xiii
... husband had obtained work in a psychiatric hospital . The little town of Spencer was , to me , a godforsaken hole where I could not find one soul to call a friend . True , I had a new life , a husband , and two won- derful little twin ...
... husband had obtained work in a psychiatric hospital . The little town of Spencer was , to me , a godforsaken hole where I could not find one soul to call a friend . True , I had a new life , a husband , and two won- derful little twin ...
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... , both of whom had received a formal education , while mother , at seventeen , was provided with a dowry suitable to her parents ' financial and social standing and “ mar- ried off . " The husband her parents chose for 2 Prologue.
... , both of whom had received a formal education , while mother , at seventeen , was provided with a dowry suitable to her parents ' financial and social standing and “ mar- ried off . " The husband her parents chose for 2 Prologue.
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... husband her parents chose for her was a good - looking , decent , smart but poor young businessman . The dowry was an effort to give him the start he needed . I remember my mother's lifelong lam- entation that she was " just pushed out ...
... husband her parents chose for her was a good - looking , decent , smart but poor young businessman . The dowry was an effort to give him the start he needed . I remember my mother's lifelong lam- entation that she was " just pushed out ...
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... 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 Wolf , who became withdrawn and depressed but unable to fight for or with me . There were also prac ...
... 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 Wolf , who became withdrawn and depressed but unable to fight for or with me . There were also prac ...
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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