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portada The Lottery
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
252
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781732868731

The Lottery

George M. Hahn (Author) · TierraAlta Press · Paperback

The Lottery - George M. Hahn

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Synopsis "The Lottery"

George M. Hahn, the author of this memoir, was born to middle-class Jewish parents in 1926 in Vienna. After the Nazi take-over of Austria in 1938, the lives of Viennese Jews rapidly deteriorated. George's father was arrested, turned over to the Gestapo and sent to Dachau. George was betrayed by a close friend, bullied by Nazi youths and deeply frightened by Kristallnacht. In early 1939, he left Vienna on a Kindertransport train to the Netherlands where he lived in a camp for refugee children. Later that year, George's mother managed to obtain her husband's release and the family reunited in Belgium. A lucky fluke made it possible for them to emigrate to the United States and they settled in Sacramento, California. When George turned 18, he joined the US Army. Because he spoke German, he was recruited as an agent of the US Counter Intelligence Corps and was involved in the arrest and interrogation of SS and Gestapo officers. After his return to the United States, George completed a Ph.D at Stanford University and was appointed to the Stanford faculty. Later, as an internationally-renowned cancer researcher, he returned to the Netherlands as a visiting scholar. He found the camp where he had spent almost a year of his childhood. There he was told that the other children in the camp had been deported and likely killed by the Germans. "Those of us who dodged the fate that the Nazis had in store for us did so because we held the right lottery ticket. Those who didn't perished."

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