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Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis
In 1945, when the Red Army liberated Berlin, they found in the Nazi capital a functioning Jewish hospital. In Refuge in Hell, Daniel B. Silver explores the many quirks of fortune and history that made the hospital's survival possible. His engrossing account of this little-known slice of history "reads like a novel imbued with the richness of a strong narrative and the dept...more
Hardcover, 311 pages
Published
September 15th 2004
by Mariner Books
(first published September 17th 2003)
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This book was the subject of an NPR interview a few years ago. I bought it because I wanted to know how a Jewish Hospital in Berlin could survive anywhere in the Germany of the Hitler years. The book goes a long way to answer that question for which there is no rational explanation, especially when you consider that an SS office was lodged in one of the hospital's buildings!
There were horrible events, such as being forced to cull the hospital staff who were sent to concentration camps or shot....more
There were horrible events, such as being forced to cull the hospital staff who were sent to concentration camps or shot....more
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