Publisher's Synopsis
When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, the fate of Paul Vantoch's Jewish father hung in the balance. To save the family business, Eugen Vantoch divorced his wife and went into hiding only to see, after liberation from the Nazis, Czechoslovakia fall under Stalin's harsh Communist doctrine. Paul Vantoch's book offers a revealing and little-known portrait of the life a Mischling (half-breed) in Prague under German occupation, followed by Soviet ideological tyranny. The tightly woven chronicle tells the unforgettable tale of how Paul helped his father survive Hitler's systematic extermination of Jews, and how Paul and his mother escaped the Communists.
