Hi Safranim - My friend Mike Adler has just translated and edited the amazing story of his father's escape from WWII Europe. I know there are a lot of amazing stories, but this is a great one. It's called I Am a Refugee by Camillo Adler, and is available on Amazon. In Mike's words:
> Michel F. Adler has translated from German to English his father's, Camillo > Adler's, amazing narrative as an Austrian Jew living in France before WWII > and the events that followed. Michel discovered the manuscripts in his > brother's artifacts after his death. The manuscripts written in 1944 had been > lying dormant for nearly 70 years. The book traces his father's path through > internment camps into the Foreign Legion, basic training in Algeria and > Morocco and the journey back to France after the armistice with Germany in > the summer of 1940. After living quietly in Lyon until its second occupation > in November of 1942, it continues to tell of the precarious escape of his > family into Switzerland, with two small children in tow, and life in various > refugee camps until the eventual reunification of the family. Beyond an > account of events, his story is an intimate window into the conditions of the > period, the ramifications of human action and inaction and into the > thought-world of the many Jewish refugees during that tumultuous time. If you're interested in a variation on Holocaust themes, this could be it. Thanks, Barbara Mende Congregation Mishkan Tefila Chestnut Hill, MA
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