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Informationen zum Autor By Sophia Orlovsky Williams Klappentext Escape into Danger tells the remarkable true story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming-of-age during World War II. Only seventeen when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Sophia left her native Kiev, unwittingly escaping the Babi Yar massacre. On her journey into Russia, she fled from flooding, dodged fires and bombs, and fell in love. At Stalingrad, Sophia turned back in a futile attempt to return home to her mother. Stranded in a Nazi-occupied town, accepted as a Russian, she found work with a sympathetic German officer and felt secure until a local girl recognized her as a Jew. Within days, Sophia's boss spirited her to safety with his family in Poland. Soon, though, Sophia was on the run again, this time to Nazi Germany, where she somehow escaped detection through the rest of the war. She met and married a like-minded German soldier and started a family, but she was again forced to flee, this time from her abusive husband, turned vindictive, homicidal stalker after their divorce. Throughout, Sophia maintained her grit, charm, and optimism, the qualities that saved her as she time and again made her "escape into danger." Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Spring of Youth 1 Full of Spunk 2 "Let It Rot!" 3 Politics 4 Internationalka 5 An Omen Fulfilled Part II: The Steppes Aflame6 Partings 7 Flagship Stalin 8 Narrow Escapes 9 Flight to the East 10 The Turning Point 11 My Purse! 12 Stranded 13 Waiting for the EnemyPart III: German Occupation 14 Facing the Invaders 15 To Register-or Not? 16 A Promotion 17 "You Haven't Lost Everything." 18 German Studies 19 A Lamb in Spring 20 RescuedPart IV: Eye of the Hurricane 21 On a Nazi Train 22 "Good Little Farmer" 23 A Red Silk Camisole 24 Lord of the Manor 25 Red Cross Nurse 26 The Truth Comes OutPart V: Inside Nazi Germany 27 Nemesis on Horseback 28 Found! 29 A Proposal 30 Beethoven's Fifth 31 Hope 32 Half-Crazy, or in Love 33 Crisscrossing the Third Reich 34 "Imagine, Running into You!" 35 Off to the AlpsPart VI: Postwar Germany 36 Liberated by the Americans 37 A Changed Man 38 Ten Centimes Short 39 Pedaling through the Slush 40 A Twenty-Mark Fine 41 In the Cards 42 Bird in a Maze 43 A Double Rainbow...
