ISBN:
9780786470457
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 222 S.
Year of publication:
2012
DDC:
940.53/18092
Keywords:
Kory, Peter Childhood and youth
;
World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Jewish
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust Biography
;
Jewish refugees Biography
;
Escapes History 20th century
;
Berlin (Germany) Biography
;
Brussels (Belgium) Biography
;
France Biography
;
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements
;
Immigrants Biography
;
Erlebnisbericht
;
Europa
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Kind
;
Flucht
;
USA
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Abstract:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
