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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... thought in while learning English . My feet began walking the new soil as I was adapt- ing and trying to find new ... thoughts did not leave me for one moment . One day , I took up a pencil and paper Preface.
... thought in while learning English . My feet began walking the new soil as I was adapt- ing and trying to find new ... thoughts did not leave me for one moment . One day , I took up a pencil and paper Preface.
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... thoughts and memories of my war experiences . Soon I found myself needing more and more paper as I filled up the pages . I wrote without thinking . I was possessed with the urgency of getting it all down . I reached to the very core of ...
... thoughts and memories of my war experiences . Soon I found myself needing more and more paper as I filled up the pages . I wrote without thinking . I was possessed with the urgency of getting it all down . I reached to the very core of ...
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... thought my pleas would be heard . Then later she would tell me : " You better study as much as you can because your education will be your only dowry . " As I grew up , I struggled to please my parents , particularly my mother . My ...
... thought my pleas would be heard . Then later she would tell me : " You better study as much as you can because your education will be your only dowry . " As I grew up , I struggled to please my parents , particularly my mother . My ...
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... 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 that the few plac- es open to Jews went not to those who passed the exam but to ...
... 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 that the few plac- es open to Jews went not to those who passed the exam but to ...
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... thought that the lack of passion in my mar- riage would somehow change in time , and I convinced myself not to be troubled by it . And besides , I was busy with work and there was little time for " foolishness . " Wolf still dreamed of ...
... thought that the lack of passion in my mar- riage would somehow change in time , and I convinced myself not to be troubled by it . And besides , I was busy with work and there was little time for " foolishness . " Wolf still dreamed of ...
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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