Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Underground in Berlin is the true account of Marie Jalowicz, a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1942, at age twenty, Jalowicz made the decision to evade the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, assumed a false identity, and went into hiding within the city. Over the following years, Jalowicz sheltered with various people, including circus performers, communists, and Nazi sympathizers. She discovered that compassion and cruelty often coexist. Fifty years after the war, Jalowicz told her story for the first time. Narrated in her own voice, the memoir documents the surreal and sometimes absurd realities of daily life in wartime Berlin while in hiding. It offers an account of survival, isolation, and what it means to be human during extraordinary circumstances.