Autobiography / Jewish Studies / German Studies
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Childhood under Hitler and Stalin From the earliest delights of a childhood filled with music, family, and the smell of pines and the sea, Wieck retraces his life. He tells of his school days and their sudden end, the shock of Kristallnacht, his Aunt Fanny being sent by train to a destination unknown, the chemical factory where Jewish workers gradually disappeared, the bombs falling on Königsberg. The Russian occupation was anything but the expected delivery from the horrors of the war. In the midst of privation, savagery, and death, there were moments of absurdity, and Wieck powerfully depicts them in this unforgettable memoir. "I have
never read more impressive testimony about the fate that befell
people—especialy Jews in this century—and I have never
met anyone who so ably survived all this."—Marion Countess
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