Mischka's War

A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York

Sheila Fitzpatrick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23918-0 (ISBN)

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On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS - the authors of such atrocities - Mischka volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. Surviving Hitler's Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany, where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the exceptional Heidelberg Physics Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to the US by a Jewish survivor whom his mother, Olga, had saved during Riga's worst period of Jewish arrests. As refugee experiences go, Mischka was among the lucky ones - but even luck leaves scars. The author Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as a memoirist to telling the remarkable story of Mischka's odyssey and survival.

Sheila Fitzpatrick is Emerita Professor of History at the University of Chicago, USA and Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. One of the most acclaimed historians of 20th-century Russia, she is the author of several books, including The Russian Revolution; Stalin's Peasants; Everyday Stalinism; Tear off the Masks!; and A Spy in the Archive: A Memoir of Cold War Russia (I.B.Tauris, 2013).

Introduction
Mischka and Olga
1 Family
2 Childhood
3 Riga under the Soviets
4 Riga under the Germans
5 Wartime Germany
6 The Bombing of Dresden
7 Displaced Persons in Flensburg
8 Olga, from Flensburg to Fulda
9 Student in Hanover
10 Physics and Marriage in Heidelberg
11 Olga’s Departure
12 Mischka’s Departure
Afterword
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.02.2021
Zusatzinfo	42 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-23918-6 / 1350239186
ISBN-13	978-1-350-23918-0 / 9781350239180
Zustand	Neuware