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 xiii
... living with guilt for my accidental survival . At that time , 1950 to 1952 , I lived in rural West Virginia , where my husband had obtained work in a psychiatric hospital . The little town of Spencer was , to me , a godforsaken hole ...
... living with guilt for my accidental survival . At that time , 1950 to 1952 , I lived in rural West Virginia , where my husband had obtained work in a psychiatric hospital . The little town of Spencer was , to me , a godforsaken hole ...
Page xiv
... living corpses . They , the psychiatric invalids , and I seemed doomed to live with our skele- tons and our fears . I , however , was luckier than they . I had a pencil and paper and an ability to write . So I wrote , and remembered . I ...
... living corpses . They , the psychiatric invalids , and I seemed doomed to live with our skele- tons and our fears . I , however , was luckier than they . I had a pencil and paper and an ability to write . So I wrote , and remembered . I ...
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... living added to his burdens . A quiet man , he was not cut out to withstand all of the stress- es of rising anti - Semitism and its effects on business . A " Christian awakening " had begun to turn shoppers away from Jewish merchants ...
... living added to his burdens . A quiet man , he was not cut out to withstand all of the stress- es of rising anti - Semitism and its effects on business . A " Christian awakening " had begun to turn shoppers away from Jewish merchants ...
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... living with my parents and travel to Krakow every now and then for exams . My parents thought the plan absurd and told me that my place was to marry and have children . I studied anyway . Meanwhile , Nazi propaganda was welcomed warmly ...
... living with my parents and travel to Krakow every now and then for exams . My parents thought the plan absurd and told me that my place was to marry and have children . I studied anyway . Meanwhile , Nazi propaganda was welcomed warmly ...
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... or Wolf , who became withdrawn and depressed but unable to fight for or with me . There were also prac- tical concerns . Sam could not make a living . I had just finished sup- porting a man for two years , and I knew 6 Prologue.
... or Wolf , who became withdrawn and depressed but unable to fight for or with me . There were also prac- tical concerns . Sam could not make a living . I had just finished sup- porting a man for two years , and I knew 6 Prologue.
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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