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I just got a copy of Bitter Prerequisites by the historian Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt.These survivors were all members of the Purdue University faculty community, and agreed to be interviewed about their escapes from the areas controlled by the third reich. I lived in that community, and knew one of the survivors personally in the fifties.
The stories are hair-raising, and touching, and true. The survivor I knew had to cross Russia to come to the United States because the Adriatic was closed.
One family posed as Polish aristocrats - (They were blonde, and the mother was sexy),
One woman survived Auschwitz.
The book has amazing stories of bravery, enormous human and material loss, righteous gentiles, luck, suffering, and triumph.
These survivors were extremely intelligent and articulate, and the writer was both sympathetic and scholarly. It is an unusual and wonderful book.
The stories are hair-raising, and touching, and true. The survivor I knew had to cross Russia to come to the United States because the Adriatic was closed.
One family posed as Polish aristocrats - (They were blonde, and the mother was sexy),
One woman survived Auschwitz.
The book has amazing stories of bravery, enormous human and material loss, righteous gentiles, luck, suffering, and triumph.
These survivors were extremely intelligent and articulate, and the writer was both sympathetic and scholarly. It is an unusual and wonderful book.
