My Sanctuary

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An engaging account of the author's childhood and youth in Nazi Germany, his unexpected discovery of being half-Jewish thus stigmatized under the Nuremberg race laws, his search for his father, and his eventual quest for a new life abroad. It provides insightful flashbacks to Hitler's coming to power and to life under his rule, the country at war, the plight of the writer's aunt a staunchly anti-Nazi school teacher in the hands of the Gestapo, and later to his efforts to aid and free his beloved mother and grandparents from French internment. The diverse episodes, ordinary, heart-warming or dire, evolving in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and France on the way to the New World, make for compelling reading.