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Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's
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Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany Paperback - 1993

by Wyden, Peter

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What happened in Nazi Germany to turn a fondly remembered childhood Jewish classmate into a serial murderess and tool of the Gestapo? Seeking answers, Peter Wyden traveled back into his own past. The result is this deeply personal work, a true-life Sophie's Choice, unique in Holocaust literature. Photos.

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  • Title Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany
  • Author Wyden, Peter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Anchor Books
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York
  • Date October 1, 1993
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5D400000AE93_ns
  • ISBN 9780385471794 / 0385471793
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.16 x 0.96 in (20.27 x 13.11 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Berlin (Germany) - Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93024079
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the jacket flap

The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, and who later became notorious as a "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her illegitimate daughter in Israel.
16 pages of B&W photographs.

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About the author

Peter Wyden was a former writer for Newsweek and Executive Editor of Ladies' Home Journal. For a decade he was the president of Peter Wyden Books, a publishing house specializing in works about psychology and medicine. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including The Intimate Enemy (with Dr. George R. Bach); Day One: Before Hiroshima and After; and Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. Born in Berlin, he died in Danbury, Connecticut in 1998.