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A Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction Book of 2015 The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered. Gerard DeGroot, Washington Post

Captivating....Jalowicz's story is unquestionably tragic in so many ways, but is also full of miracles, hope, and a future. --Publishers Weekly (Starred review) A Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction Book of 2015 The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever encountered. --Gerard DeGroot, Washington Post Marie Jalowicz Simon transports the reader right to wartime Berlin. Even seventy years later, her voice is young, fresh, and gripping. Her story is by turns funny, wise, and horrific. I felt like she was reaching out to me across time and I couldn't help but fall in love with her. Despite the incredible dangers she faced living underground in Nazi Berlin, Marie's story is incredibly life-affirming and at times, even joyful. --Clara Kramer, author of Clara's War An absolutely gripping account of one young woman's struggle to escape deportation at the hands of the Nazis and of those who helped her. Marie Jalowicz-Simon details for the first time with total honesty the harsh sexual politics of survival in the Berlin underground. --Thomas Ertman, New York University, author of Birth of the Leviathan

An absolutely gripping account of one young woman's struggle to escape deportation at the hands of the Nazis and of those who helped her. Marie Jalowicz-Simon details for the first time with total honesty the harsh sexual politics of survival in the Berlin underground. Thomas Ertman, New York University, author of Birth of the Leviathan

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Marie Jalowicz Simon was born in 1922 into a middle-class Jewish family. She escaped the ghettos and concentration camps during the Second World War by hiding in Berlin. After the war she was full professor of the literary cultural history of classical antiquity at the Berlin Humboldt University. Shortly before her death, her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation-Centrum Judaicum, recorded Marie telling her story. He acts as a spokesperson for Underground in Berlin.

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