past in hiding: memory and survival in Nazi Germany

Examines the life of Marianne Strauss Ellenbogen, a German Jew who survived the Holocaust. Through the heroism of a German officer, she got word from her fiance in the Izbica ghetto about conditions in the ghettos and camps, and when the Nazis came for her family, she used a diversion to escape. The rest of the family perished at Auschwitz. Drawing on photogrqaphs, letters, diaries, documents and interviews, Roseman tells the powerful story of her journey