5401610
9781862079533
When his family is deported to concentration camps in 1942, 20-year-old draftsman Cioma Schonhaus goes underground. Recruited to a network dedicated to rescuing Jews from the gas chambers, Schonhaus discovers a life-saving talent for falsifying identity cards. While working on his forgeries, he changes address every night, relying on girlfriends and the friendship of anti-Nazi Germans to keep him one step ahead of the Gestapo. But when his face finally appears on Gestapo wanted posters all over the city, he decides the time has come to attempt a breathtaking escape from Berlin to Switzerland--by bicycle.Schonhaus, Cioma is the author of 'Forger An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin', published 2007 under ISBN 9781862079533 and ISBN 1862079536.
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