Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Mischka's War

A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York.

In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS, the 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. Surviving Hitler's Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany, where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the Heidelberg Physics Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to the US by a Jewish survivor. The historian Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events tells the remarkable story of Mischka's odyssey and survival. XXII,313 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (I.B. Tauris 2017) Schnitt minimal nachgedunkelt/Edges slightly browned