TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Simon
TI  - How to be a refugee: one family's story of exile and belonging 
SN  - 9781529042818 (hbk.) :
AV  - D804.3 
U1  - 940.5318 MAY 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  - May, Simon
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Germany
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Denial (Psychology)
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - The most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitler's Germany is either emigration or deportation to concentration camps. But there was another, much rarer, side to Jewish life at that time: denial of your origin to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it. You refuse to believe that you are Jewish. 'How to Be a Refugee' is Simon May's account of how three sisters - his mother and his two aunts - grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism, marriage into the German aristocracy, securing 'Aryan' status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler's regime, and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi
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