Mein Leben als "Arier" : jüdische Familiengeschichte in Polen zur Zeit der Schoáh und als Zwangsarbeiter in Deutschland

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1924 as Izaak Steger in Mosty Wielkie, Poland (now Velyki Mosty, Ukraine). After the Nazi occupation in June 1941, he adopted a false identity as Jerzy Czarnecki and fled from one hiding place to another. He reached Warsaw and from there was sent as a Polish forced laborer to Stettin. After a violent argument with an overseer he escaped, but was arrested and then imprisoned and tortured in the Stralsund prison. He was later sent to work in a wood-processing factory, where he survived the last year of the war and was liberated. His elder brother also survived; his parents, younger brother, grandparents, and almost all the Jewish residents of his town were murdered. 1. Aufl. 114 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm