Memoirs of a Berlin Jew, who was 16 years old in 1943 when he went into hiding in Luckenwalde near Berlin with the aid of Hans Winkler. Winkler, together with Werner Scharff, a Jew who had escaped from Theresienstadt, organized a resistance group, the Gemeinschaft für Frieden und Aufbau, comprised of their friends, mostly Jews in hiding and the non-Jews who hid them. They forged documents and disseminated ...

Ilse Loewenberg (1908-2001) was born to shop owners Simon Berghausen (1870-1943) and Hannchen (Goldschmidt) Berghausen (b. 1880) in Büren, Germany. She had three sisters, Margarete (1906-1943) Carla (b. 1911), and Lieselotte (1921-1943). Ilse lived in Büren until 1938 when her parents were forced to sell their store due to persecution by the Nazis. Ilse and her family moved to Berlin, Germany shortly ...