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An Underground Life - Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Paperback, New edition)
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An Underground Life - Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
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Loot Price R452
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That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through
the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a
homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and
clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out of the
country is amazing. It was love that gave him both the impetus and
the strength to fight. The rise of National Socialism was tearing
his family apart, destroying his school, thwarting his dream of
emigration to Israel. Then the Nazis came for Manfred Lewin, Beck's
first love, and for his family. Gad's love for Manfred gave him the
courage to don a three-sizes-too-large Hitler Youth uniform, march
into the transit camp where the Lewins were being held, and demand
- and obtain, to his astonishment - the release of his lover. But
Manfred would not leave without his family, and so went back into
the camp. The Lewins did not survive. Coming of age as a gay man
during the war and maintaining a series of romantic relationships
while carrying on his resistance work, Beck reveals a tenacity and
irrepressible spirit that is his real legacy. His determination to
keep loving, living and believing in every human possibility
without compromise - even in the face of the unthinkably monstrous
- makes this quite a different story of the Holocaust.
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