An absorbing new insight into a little-known aspect of the second world war. Paul Levitt takes us deep into pre and post-war Berlin in a fast-moving, brilliantly observed, enthralling and engaging story of a Jewish son forced to confront his mother’s way of surviving as Nazi power increased. We are caught up in his growing… Continue reading Berlin Revisited
Tag: World War II
Yana
It is Yana Primuz herself, known to be “so good with words,” who tells us of her forced removal as a teenager during WWII from Belgrade in Yugoslavia to a labor camp, Zella-Mehlis (historical, not a fiction), just south of Belsen in Germany. For years, she suffers from rape, from cold and hunger, is forced… Continue reading Yana