Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Foreword

Part I: Three Miracles

1 Endings and Beginnings

2 The Gestapo Arrives

3 Deportation

4 Gun Factory

5 Motor Sales

6 Ilse

7 Marriage

8 Factory Action

9 The Drunk

10 Refuge

11 Kusitzky

12 Black Market

13 Basements and Bedbugs

14 Communists and Blind Men

15 Jewish SS

16 Damn Yankee

17 D-Day

18 Car Thieves

19 Pigeon Food

20 Arrested by the Gestapo

21 Escape

22 Russians

23 Beginnings and Endings

Part II: After the Fall

24 Alone No More

25 Refugee

26 Divorce

27 End of the Line

Epilogue

Appendix I: Apprenticeship

Appendix II: Kristallnacht

Acknowledgments