Posts Tagged ‘gutsy’

Novel revives true story of gutsy Jew who survived Nazis to marry German soldier

LONDON — In November 1943, Hedwig Bercu, a Jewish woman living in Nazi-occupied Jersey, faked her own death and went into hiding. The 24-year-old’s near-miraculous escape was aided by a local islander, Dorothea Weber, who sheltered Bercu in her own home for 18 months. Beru was also helped by her lover — Lt. Kurt Rümmele, […]

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