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"In 1943, 22-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. A few months later, escaping conscription into the Waffen-SS in Riga, Mischka entered Hitler's Reich itself on a student exchange to Germany. There, as the war drew to an end, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. As he made his escape from Hitler's Reich he fell ill and was incarcerated in hospital before finally reuniting with his resourceful mother Olga, who had made her own way out of Riga, saving some Jews along the way. The diaries, correspondence and later recollections of mother and son provide a vivid recreation of life in occupied Germany, where anxiety, fear and loss were tempered by friendship, and where the ineptitude of international and occupation bureaucracies added its own touch of black humour. Sponsored as immigrants by one of the Jews Olga had saved, they eventually reached New York in the early 1950s. As refugee experiences go, they were among the lucky ones--but even luck leaves scars. The author, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as a memoirist to telling this remarkable story."--
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Refugees, World War, 1939-1945, Biography, History, Latvians, World war, 1939-1945, refugees, World war, 1939-1945, germany, Latvia, history, Physicists, biography, Danos, Michael, World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees, Refugees -- Europe -- Biography, Latvia -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944People
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Mischka's war: a story of survival from war-torn Europe to New York
2017, I.B. Tauris
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1788310225 9781788310222
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Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York
2017, Melbourne University Publishing
in English
0522867855 9780522867855
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