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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350239186
• ISBN13: 9781350239180
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"