Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

ON a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS - the authors of such atrocities - Mischka 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788310225
• ISBN13: 9781788310222
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"