My Child is Back!

London / Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Very Good condition. A bright, shiny, clean, tight copy. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. The spine is square and flat. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. A volume from the LIBRARY OF HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES series. From the rear cover: "In MY CHILD IS BACK! Ursula Pawel relates her experiences in Germany from her birth in 1926 to the start of a new life in the USA after the war. Her father was a Jew, her mother a Christian, and although their marriage shocked some relatives, such 'mixed marriages' were not uncommon in the 1920s. Ursula had a happy early childhood, but with Hitler's rise to power, persecution of Jews, including 'half Jews' like Ursula, started immediately. Ursula's mother rejected all Nazi pressure to divorce 'the Jew,' and some of the non-Jewish relatives gave the family loyal support. When her parents finally recognized their mortal danger, it was too late. In 1942 Ursula was sent to a concentration camp. The family pleaded to join her so that they could stay together, but only her father and brother -- then 12 years old -- were permitted to go with her, ultimately to their deaths at Auschwitz. Ursula's life was narrowly saved by the baffling intervention of two German soldiers, and after the advancing Russians liberated her in 1945, she made a 500-mile trek across the occupation zones for a reunion with her mother in western Germany… She and her mother finally settled in the USA in 1947.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 2002 printing of the 2000 original. Softcover. Very Good condition. (xviii), 172pp.