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Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret

Door Paul Glaser

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#407476-XS20
Titel
Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
Auteur
Glaser, Paul
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
New York : Nan A. Talese
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
0385537700
ISBN13
9780385537704
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in the Netherlands, Paul Glaser was shocked to learn as an adult of his father's Jewish heritage. Grappling with his newfound identity and stunned by his father's secrecy, Paul set out to discover what happened to his family during World War II and what caused the longstanding rift between his father and his estranged aunt, Rosie, who moved to Sweden after the war. Piecing together his aunt's wartime diaries, photographs, and letters, Paul reconstructs the dramatic story of a woman who was caught up in the tragic sweep of World War II. An emancipated Dutch woman who defied convention, Rosie Glaser toured Western Europe teaching ballroom dancing to high acclaim, falling in love hard and often. By the age of twenty-five, she had lost the great love of... (Lees verder) her life in a flying accident, sought consolation in the arms of another, and married the wrong man. Then the Nazis seized power. For Rosie, a non-practicing Jew, this marked the beginning of an extremely dangerous adventure. Betrayed by both her ex-husband and her lover, Rosie was taken prisoner by the SS and sent to a series of concentration camps. But her enemies were unable to destroy her and she remarkably survived, in part by teaching dance and etiquette lessons to her captors. An entertainer at heart, Rosie's vivacious spirit, her effervescent charm, and her incredible resourcefulness kept her alive amid horrendous tragedy. Of the 1,200 people who arrived with her at Auschwitz, only eight survived. With over 90 photos, Dancing with the Enemy recalls an extraordinary life marked by love, betrayal, and fierce determination.
Pagina's
299
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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