The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust

✍ Scribed by Ingram, Marione

• Book ID: 107825440
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620871850

✦ Synopsis

Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story.

As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany's many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo. Marione's mother attempted suicide after receiving a deportation notice—Marione revived her, but then the bombs started to fall, as the Allies leveled the city in eight straight days of bombings. Somehow Marione and her mother and sister survived the devastating firestorms—more than 40,000 perished, and almost the same numbered were wounded.

Marione and her family miraculously escaped and sought shelter with a contact in the countryside who grudgingly agreed to house them in a shed for more than a year. With the war drawing to a close, they went west, back to Hamburg. There...