Overview
- Summary
- "In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending on who was hunting him at the time. Nine years old and his world had collapsed. It was 1939 and Hitler had unleashed the Blitzkrieg--bombs were exploding around him, changing everything. This moment of terror catapulted him into an epic nine-year adventure during the Second World War. He was forced to abandon his home, his family and his childhood. Like a bad dream from which he could not awake, he began an alternate existence--that of a refugee, prey for the Nazis, part of old French nobility, a resistance participant and a rebellious orphan. But most of all, he learned how to be a survivor"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, [2012]
©2012 - Locale
- Europe
Berlin (Germany)
Brussels (Belgium)
France
United States - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (page 217) and index.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 9780786470457
0786470453 - Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Biography. Jewish refugees--Europe--Biography. Escapes--Europe--History--20th century. Berlin (Germany)--Biography. Brussels (Belgium)--Biography. France--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. Immigrants--United States--Biography. Personal narratives. Biographies. Kory, Peter,--1931---Childhood and youth.
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