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Mischka's War - A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York (Paperback)
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Mischka's War - A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York (Paperback)
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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 Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany,
where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the exceptional Heidelberg Physics
Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to
the US by a Jewish survivor whom his mother, Olga, had saved during
Riga's worst period of Jewish arrests. As refugee experiences go,
Mischka was among the lucky ones - but even luck leaves scars. The
author Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years
after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as
a memoirist to telling the remarkable story of Mischka's odyssey
and survival.
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