Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew survived the Holocaust (General Military) - Hardcover

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Moritz Nachtstern (1902-1969), a typographer, was one of the 532 Norwegian Jews deported to Germany on the ship Danau in 1942. From March 1943 until February 1945 he was a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. Norwegian journalist Ragnar Arntzen edited the memoir for publication in 1949. Moritz Nachtstern's daughter Sidsel Nachtstern contributes a moving foreword to the book. Bjarte Bruland is a historian specializing in the Holocaust in Norway. He presently works as chief curator a the Oslo Jewish Museum preparing the permanent exhibition on Jewish culture and history in Norway to be opened in 2009. Lawrence Malkin is the author of Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 which has been translated into seven languages. In his long career as a journalist, Lawrence was the European Correspondent of Time magazine, based in Paris, and the International Herald Tribune's correspondent in New York. His articles and reviews have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, Fortune, Horizon, and The Quarterly Journal of Military History. He lives in New York with his wife. Margrit Rosenberg Stenge was born in Cologne, Germany. She escaped to Oslo, Norway with her parents in 1939, where they survived the war hiding in a small mountain village called Rogne. At the end of the war they returned to Oslo where Margrit finished high school and then attended a commercial college for one year, specializing in languages. Subsequently she worked as a secretary in foreign languages. In the 1950s she moved to Canada with her husband. On a visit to Norway in 1996, she was given a book by a Holocaust survivor. After reading it, she decided to translate it. Since then she has translated several memoirs and books about the Holocaust.