Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness, Pieter van Os (9781913348892) — Readings Books

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Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness
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Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe’s heart of darkness

Pieter van Os
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An extraordinary story about a Jewish woman who pretended to be Catholic to survive the Holocaust.

Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. But no one knew that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family. She survived World War II using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities.

Journalist Pieter van Os retraces Mala’s footsteps through Europe to uncover her extraordinary journey and the stories of those who helped her. This poignant, rich book is an engrossing meditation on what drives us to fear the Other, and what in turn might allow us to feel compassion for them.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
United Kingdom
Date
8 September 2022
Pages
384
ISBN
9781913348892

An extraordinary story about a Jewish woman who pretended to be Catholic to survive the Holocaust.

Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. But no one knew that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family. She survived World War II using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities.

Journalist Pieter van Os retraces Mala’s footsteps through Europe to uncover her extraordinary journey and the stories of those who helped her. This poignant, rich book is an engrossing meditation on what drives us to fear the Other, and what in turn might allow us to feel compassion for them.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
United Kingdom
Date
8 September 2022
Pages
384
ISBN
9781913348892

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