{"product_id":"9781788310222","title":"Mischka's War : A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMischka's War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Sheila Fitzpatrick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS - the authors of such atrocities - Mischka volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. Surviving Hitler's Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany, where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the exceptional Heidelberg Physics Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to the US by a Jewish survivor whom his mother, Olga, had saved during Riga's worst period of Jewish arrests. As refugee experiences go, Mischka was among the lucky ones - but even luck leaves scars. The author Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as a memoirist to telling the remarkable story of Mischka's odyssey and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written and deeply felt, the book is much more than a labor of love. It is a recreation of two significant lives, Misha's and his mother, Olga's, that together illustrate, indeed illuminate, a time and place in the turbulent twentieth century.” —\u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781788310222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"I.B. Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40688685351118,"sku":"9781788310222","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781788310222","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}