An underground life : memoirs of a gay Jew in Nazi Berlin / Gad Beck ; written with Frank Heibert ; translated from the German by Allison Brown.

By:

Beck, Gad, 1923-2012 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Heibert, Frank

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Living outPublisher: Madison; The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999Description: ix, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780299165048 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.5318092 BEC 019430 23

Summary: "Still in his teens, Gad Beck was soon an important contact in Berlin for the Swiss-based Zionist organization Hechalutz and led a resistance group, Chug Chaluzi, that aided Jews with food, housing, and escape plans. Coming of age in a city under constant bombardment, carrying on resistance work and a series of romantic gay relationships despite the constant risk of arrest by the Gestapo, Beck reveals a tenacity and irrepressible spirit that is his real legacy."--BOOK JACKET. Summary: "Born Gerhard Beck in a Christian-Jewish household, he first experienced the growing power and influence of National Socialism only as an uncertain threat. As Jews began to be forced out of German social, political, and economic life, the young Gerhard embraced his Jewish heritage, joined Zionist youth groups, and took the Hebrew name Gad. Then the Naxis came for Manfred Lewin, Beck's first love, and for the Lewin family.

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"Still in his teens, Gad Beck was soon an important contact in Berlin for the Swiss-based Zionist organization Hechalutz and led a resistance group, Chug Chaluzi, that aided Jews with food, housing, and escape plans. Coming of age in a city under constant bombardment, carrying on resistance work and a series of romantic gay relationships despite the constant risk of arrest by the Gestapo, Beck reveals a tenacity and irrepressible spirit that is his real legacy."--BOOK JACKET.

"Born Gerhard Beck in a Christian-Jewish household, he first experienced the growing power and influence of National Socialism only as an uncertain threat. As Jews began to be forced out of German social, political, and economic life, the young Gerhard embraced his Jewish heritage, joined Zionist youth groups, and took the Hebrew name Gad. Then the Naxis came for Manfred Lewin, Beck's first love, and for the Lewin family.

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