They'll Have to Catch Me First

They'll Have to Catch Me First
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780299188337
ISBN-13 : 0299188337
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Book Synopsis They'll Have to Catch Me First by : Irene Awret

Download or read book They'll Have to Catch Me First written by Irene Awret and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin 1939. A few months after Kristallnacht, eighteen-year old Irene Spicker tries to flee to Belgium but ends up in a Nazi prison. Freed after a few weeks, she tries again—this time, in the dark of night, she successfully crosses the frontier. The Germans invaded Belgium, and Irene was forced into hiding. Constantly on the move, she worked as a farmhand, at one point using false identity papers. Arrested by the Gestapo, she sat in a cellar prison cell destined for transport to Auschwitz. To calm her fears, she made a small detailed drawing of her hand which was to save her life. Incarcerated in the concentration camp in Mechlen, she was assigned to paint signs, posters and numbers for her co-prisoners to wear around their necks. This is Irene Awret’s story of her first twenty-five years, from coming of age in a middle-class Jewish family to Mechlen where she met the young sculptor Azriel Awret, to liberation and freedom once more. Copublished with Dryad Press.


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