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Mischka's War: A Story Of Survival From War-Torn Europe To New York
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
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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