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The forger, Cioma Schönhaus ; with illustrations by the author ; original German version edited and with a postscript by Marion Neiss ; translated by Alan Bance

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The forger

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Cioma Schönhaus ; with illustrations by the author ; original German version edited and with a postscript by Marion Neiss ; translated by Alan Bance

Recounts the experience of a Jewish man in Berlin during World War II, who used his artistic abilities to forge documents for Jews in hiding despite the threat of punishment from Nazi authorities

Translator's preface: Latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel -- Heading home -- Looking like everybody else -- Prison regulations -- Death of a tree -- Drunken policeman -- Our flat is searched -- Bomb -- Decent young Aryan -- Living like God in France -- Adam and Evchen -- One-year sentence -- 'Degenerate art' -- Mimicry -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Waiting room without hope -- Lathe -- Compulsory oath of disclosure -- Night shift from six till six -- 'Date of deportation 2 June 1942' -- Postcard -- Graphic artist wanted -- How to forge a stamp -- Illusions -- Appendix operation -- Dr. Franz Kaufmann -- 'Just say my name is Rogoff' -- Gerda -- Orderly existence -- Hunting for rooms -- Sailing boat -- Tatjana -- Escape artist -- Fortune oblige -- Helene Jacobs -- Boldness doesn't always pay -- Betrayed -- Bicycle -- Long farewell to Berlin -- Beginning of the end in Berlin, 6 September 1943 -- Where am I actually heading? -- My first checkpoint -- Man proposes, God disposes -- Forbidden frontier -- Postscript / Marion Neiss