At the age of 19, a young Jewish woman decided to flee her persecutors. Marie Jalowicz (1922-1998) went underground in 1942. While hiding in Berlin for nearly three years, she made a mental note of everything she experienced. After the war, she became a professor in East Berlin. She rarely spoke about her life before 1945. When she became terminally ill in 1997, however, her son asked her to tell him about her past. They recorded 77 tapes of her memories, which became a book in 2014. (Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany)
