"Auf wundersame Weise dem Tode entronnen ..."

Résumé du livre

An interview with Bloch, a German Jew born in 1921 in Frankfurt to an upper-class Jewish family, deeply involved in German culture. His father, Arthur Bloch, a urological surgeon, lost his hospital position in 1933 and worked in his home; the fact that he had many non-Jewish patients and did well economically caused him to delay his emigration. Peter Bloch left Germany in 1939, after his high school examinations, and immigrated to England. His parents managed to immigrate to Belgium; Peter joined them there several days before the German invasion in May 1940. In order to escape deportation in spring 1942, he fled to Switzerland under a false identity. His parents went into hiding, but his father was denounced and shot. Bloch and his mother survived and immigrated to the USA in 1949.