Underground in Berlin a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany

Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.

Main Author: Simon, Marie, 1922-1998.
Other Authors: Bell, Anthea (Translator), Simon, Hermann (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
German
Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2015.
Edition: First United States edition
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Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
Item Description: "First English-language edtion published in Great Britain as Gone to ground by Profile Books, February 2015" -- page 2.
Originally published in Germany as Untergetaucht: Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2014" -- page 2.
Physical Description: 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780316382090 (hc.)
0316382094 (hc.)
Author Notes: Marie Jalowicz Simon was born in 1922 into a middle-class Jewish family. She escaped the ghettos and concentration camps during the Second World War by hiding in Berlin. After the war she was full professor of the literary cultural history of classical antiquity at the Berlin Humboldt University. Shortly before her death, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation-Centrum Judaicum, recorded Marie telling her story. He acts as a spokesperson for Underground in Berlin .