Twilight in Danzig

By Siegfried Kra

Book Overview

Based on Siegfried Kra's own childhood, Twilight in Danzig is an important addition to pre-Holocaust literature and a unique chronicle of European Jewish culture that reads like a thriller.

Young Jonas Kruger's parents. are scions of Danzig society, his father a coal merchant, his mother a lovely socialite. But the rise of Hitler in 1933 forces them to examine their identity and make difficult moral choices: Jonas' governess secretly enrolls him in the Nazi Youth; Mr. Kruger buys open tickets on the Queen Mary, but keeps his family in Danzig, hoping the madness will blow over.

But soon the anti-Jewish laws will reach Danzig and the Krugers will face the most difficult decision of their lives: whether to try to reform and resist from within, or to flee penniless to a country that doesn't want them, leaving their larger family to an unspeakable fate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912887583
• ISBN13: 9780912887586
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"