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Wenige Stunden bevor die 21-jährige Margot Bendheim mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem sechs Jahre jüngeren Bruder vor der nationalsozialistischen Bedrohung aus Berlin fliehen will, wird der Bruder von der Gestapo aufgegriffen. Die Mutter folgt ihm auf die Polizeiwache und hinterlässt für Margot ihre Handtasche mit Adressbuch, ihre Bernsteinkette und die Nachricht "Versuche, dein Leben zu machen".

Ruth Elias, a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, recounts her challenging and unthinkable story of confronting perhaps the most agonizing choice so that she and her newborn infant would not die. Taken for Nazi medical experimentation, she confronted the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele and saved the life of not only herself but her child as well.

This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, a man who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands' award-winning film Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial contribution to a better understanding of the complexity of life under the Nazis.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Now, thanks to radical new...