Young Lothar: An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin

ISBN-13: 9781784537630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Larry Orbach

Opis

Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin's Jews.

Spis treści

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION ORIGINAL PREFACE PROLOGUE 1. BORN IN A GATHERING STORM 2. THE INSTITUTE ORBACH 3. WE ARE GOING UNDER 4. SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT 5. A VERY BUSY DAY 6. LEARNING THE ANGLES 7. HOUSEGUESTS 8. STACKING THE DECK WITH OPA 9. WARMED BY AN OLD FLAME 10. FROM STREET TO SANCTUARY 11. HAULING COAL, LIFTING CASH 12. VICE SQUAD 13. A PAUSE FOR PASSOVER 14. LEARNING TO SWIM 15. BETRAYAL 16. VIGNETTES OF HELL 17. PICKING UP THE PIECES EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

O autorze

Larry (Lothar) Orbach (1924-2008) grew up in Berlin and assumed the identity of Gerhard Peters from 1942-44. He spent the last year of the war in Auschwitz and emigrated to New York in 1946. Settling in New Jersey, Larry Orbach set up a jewellery business and, with his wife Ruth Geier - also a refugee from Nazi Berlin - they had two children, Vivien and Richard. True to his word, Larry Orbach's mother, Nelly, lived with him and his family until her death at age 83 in 1969. Larry's final years in his beloved New York were full and surrounded by friends from all walks of life. VIVIEN ORBACH-SMITH, Larry's daughter, is an adjunct associateprofessor of journalism at New York University. A native of NewJersey, she earned her own B.A. and M.A. degrees from NYU andbegan her career there as a development writer. Today she works as afreelance writer, book-editor and college-essay coach. An eloquentvoice of the Second Generation, she has addressed many audiences oninherited trauma and on diversity, democracy and social-justice issues.She taught classes on the Holocaust to teenagers in synagogue religiousschoolsfor many years.Vivien lives with her husband in Fairfield County, Connecticut.They have three grown children and three little grandchildren.