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Sheltered from the swastika : memoir of a Jewish boy's survival amid horror in World War II / Peter Kory

Kory, Peter, 1931-

Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2012

XI, 222 S.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

1205

978-0-7864-7045-7 (softcover : alk. paper)

2012010112

OCoLC: 796255646     

DS134.42.K67

940.53/18092     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.37 (Europäische Geschichte 1914-1945) ; 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

SSG-Nummer(n): 8; 8,1

*Europa ; Judenverfolgung ; Kind ; Flucht ; USA ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Erlebnisbericht      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Kory, Peter -- 1931- -- Childhood and youth ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish ; Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Biography ; Jewish refugees -- Europe -- Biography ; Escapes -- Europe -- History -- 20th century ; Berlin (Germany) -- Biography ; Brussels (Belgium) -- Biography ; France -- Biography ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France ; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography

"In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending on who was hunting him at the time. Nine years old and his world had collapsed. It was 1939 and Hitler had unleashed the Blitzkrieg--bombs were exploding around him, changing everything. This moment of terror catapulted him into an epic nine-year adventure during the Second World War. He was forced to abandon his home, his family and his childhood. Like a bad dream from which he could not awake, he began an alternate existence--that of a refugee, prey for the Nazis, part of old French nobility, a resistance participant and a rebellious orphan. But most of all, he learned how to be a survivor"--Provided by publisher