Mischka's War - A European Odyssey of the 1940s

Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Mischka's War - A European Odyssey of the 1940s

Mischka's War - A European Odyssey of the 1940s

Fitzpatrick, Sheila

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Shortlisted Title - Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2018 - Non Fiction

On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which made Mischka's decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going on a student exchange to Germany all the more remarkable. Especially when Mischka later discovered he was part-Jewish. But his was no ordinary life. He narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire bombing of Dresden. He then lived the precarious life of a Displaced Person in occupied Germany before heading north with the hope of crossing the border into Denmark, where he finally reunited with his mother Olga. He went on to become a member of the exceptional Heidelberg school of physics. They were both resettled in the US at the beginning of the 1950s, which is where, much later, he met, fell in love with and married Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Fitzpatrick pieces together her late husband's story through diaries, correspondence and recollections - 'This is a historian's book but it's also a wife's book about her husband ...an offering of love that is also a search for knowledge.'

Author:   Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
ISBN:  

9780522867855


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   03 July 2017
Bind Format:   Paperback
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Shortlisted Title - Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2018 - Non Fiction

On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which made Mischka's decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going on a student exchange to Germany all the more remarkable. Especially when Mischka later discovered he was part-Jewish. But his was no ordinary life. He narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire bombing of Dresden. He then lived the precarious life of a Displaced Person in occupied Germany before heading north with the hope of crossing the border into Denmark, where he finally reunited with his mother Olga. He went on to become a member of the exceptional Heidelberg school of physics. They were both resettled in the US at the beginning of the 1950s, which is where, much later, he met, fell in love with and married Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Fitzpatrick pieces together her late husband's story through diaries, correspondence and recollections - 'This is a historian's book but it's also a wife's book about her husband ...an offering of love that is also a search for knowledge.'

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Author:   Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
ISBN:  

9780522867855


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   03 July 2017
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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