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Mischka's War

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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.

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ISBN: 9781788310222
Publication date: 28th June 2017
Author: Sheila (University of Sydney, Australia) Fitzpatrick
Publisher: I.B. Tauris an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 336 pages
Genres: Civil wars
Memoirs
Specific wars and campaigns
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Modern warfare
Far-right political ideologies and movements
Refugees and political asylum
The Holocaust
Second World War