“Wearing backpacks and low shoes, we escaped Italy for Switzerland at dusk. We plodded single file up a path that got steeper and steeper. After 12 hours, a great weariness descended on me. ‘Not another inch!’ I screamed. My father slapped my face. I began to cry, but gradually quieted, pulled myself together, and followed along like a good girl.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
To escape Italy, Jews took a perilous path through the Alps to Switzerland
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter
