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An Underground Life

Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin

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“So intense and authentic that [the] narrative pulls you along.”—Christopher Lehman–Haupt, The New York TimesGad Beck, a half-Jewish German, managed to evade the Nazis and live illegally, underground, in Berlin throughout the duration of World War II. While that in itself was notable, Beck didn’t simply exist in some nocturnal world of hiding. Coming of age as a gay man during the war, he also helped organize a Jewish youth group, free friends from the Gestapo, and maintain a series of romantic relationships. The result is An Underground Life: a Holocaust memoir that conveys the surreal horror of the times but also focuses more on living than dying, and captures a life that was fueled as much by a sense of romance, adventure, and humor, as it was by suffering.

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An Underground Life, Allison Brown, Frank Heibert, Gad Beck

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Rok wydania
1999
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Tytuł
An Underground Life
Podtytuł
Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
1999
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
176
ISBN10
0299165043
ISBN13
9780299165048
Seria
Oryginalna nazwa
Und Gad ging zu David
Ocena
3,9 z 5
Opis
“So intense and authentic that [the] narrative pulls you along.”—Christopher Lehman–Haupt, The New York TimesGad Beck, a half-Jewish German, managed to evade the Nazis and live illegally, underground, in Berlin throughout the duration of World War II. While that in itself was notable, Beck didn’t simply exist in some nocturnal world of hiding. Coming of age as a gay man during the war, he also helped organize a Jewish youth group, free friends from the Gestapo, and maintain a series of romantic relationships. The result is An Underground Life: a Holocaust memoir that conveys the surreal horror of the times but also focuses more on living than dying, and captures a life that was fueled as much by a sense of romance, adventure, and humor, as it was by suffering.