Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future

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and found in a German newspaper report from 1992, the 60th anniversary of the deportation, the list that contained the names of Joe’s parents and step-grandmother Sabine.

Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the run in Italy, surviving months in hiding and then a hazardous climb over the Abruzzo mountains with German troops hot on his heels. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The well-illustrated 'ESCAPING HITLER'S BUNKER' is a page turner, giving the reader a glimpse of the fear gripping the leaders of the Third Reich, and the fate of escape parties. The book is much more informative, the accounts from survivors and family although on times hard to hear are something that we should all hear least we forget.

From 1924 emigrants had to arrange to be admitted at an American consulate in the country of origin before they left.My parents, though not Jewish, were both on the Gestapo Black List of people to be killed immediately in the event of a successful invasion. Many notable persons, such as Bormann, Speer, Göring and Hanna Reitsch, went to say a last farewell to the Führer, while others, such as Goebbels, prepared themselves for suicide rather than being taken prisoner by the Russians. I visited Joe this afternoon in his Norwich Care Home to find his two lovely daughters, Jane and Johanna, sharing his day with him. I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun.