Gone to Ground : One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany

Chapter 8Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Part Five: I was the girl without a name: After 1943 Something Like a Normal Life; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Part Six: I didn't have to surrender: The War is Over; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Afterword; Index of Names; Picture Credits; Thanks to the Following Institutions and Persons.

Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, and many of those she stayed with expected services in return. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists and even convinced Nazis. Any false move migh.
Abstract: Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Prologue, 1942; Part One: I was to learn to assert myself: Childhood and Youth in Berlin; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Part Two: Alone in the icy wastes: Forced Labour for Siemens Forced Labour for Siemens; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part Three: A rainbow of unimaginable beauty: Attempts at Flight; Going to Ground; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Part Four: The enemy is doing all this to us: The First Winter in Hiding; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7.

Chapter 8Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Part Five: I was the girl without a name: After 1943 Something Like a Normal Life; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Part Six: I didn't have to surrender: The War is Over; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Afterword; Index of Names; Picture Credits; Thanks to the Following Institutions and Persons.

Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, and many of those she stayed with expected services in return. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists and even convinced Nazis. Any false move migh