Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust

One of the best books of 2011...A nerve-wracking saga in which life and death depend on a capricious fate...absorbing lucidity...vivid portraits...simple moral vision that resonates: I became immunized against prejudice. A testament of remarkable clarity and humanity wrung from dark experience.- KIRKUS REVIEWS. ***Surviving the Holocaust by a hair Anders became a brilliant scientist. Part I is a memoir of his youth including the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia. Part II discusses with objectivity and precision Latvian conduct during WWII. -ANDREW EZERGAILIS Professor of History Ithaca NY. ***Anders survived by an outright lie (invented by his father) that his mother was a German foundling raised by a Jewish couple. His father was soon executed but Edward and his mother bluffed their way through the nightmarish years of the German occupation (1941-1945). -MORRIS HALLE Institute Professor of Linguistics MIT Cambridge MA.