Tom started to describe one he had recently finished, a bestseller in Germany, about a young Jewish Berliner who had managed to escape forced labor, deportation and extermination, all while living underground. They are both published authors, so we got to talking about books. Last summer we visited Tom and his wife, historian Susan Pedersen. His father, Tom Ertman, is German and a sociology professor at New York University who teaches Third Reich history. editor, Tracy Behar, first heard about the book in an unusual way: "My son's friend spends his summers in Berlin with his family. Little, Brown has just published Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany by Marie Jalowicz Simon, who discarded her yellow star and disappeared into the underground in World War II Berlin.
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