Dancing with the enemy : my family's Holocaust secret / Paul Glaser.
TITLE:
Dancing with the enemy : my family's Holocaust secret / Paul Glaser.
Translated Title:
Tanta Roosje.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
Edition:
First American ed.
Physical Description:
299 p.: ill.
Summary:
The gripping story of the author’s aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author’s own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots. Raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in the Netherlands, Paul Glaser was shocked to learn as an adult of his father's Jewish heritage. Grappling with his newfound identity and stunned by his father’s secrecy, Paul set out to discover what happened to his family during World War II and what had caused the long-standing rift between his father and his estranged aunt, Rosie, who moved to Sweden after the war. Piecing together his aunt’s wartime diaries, photographs, and letters, Paul reconstructed the dramatic story of a woman who was caught up in the tragic sweep of World War II.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780385537704
General Note:
"Originally published in the Netherlands as Tante Roosje by Uitgeverih Verbum, Laren in 2010 ; translation by Brian Doyle-Du Breuil."
