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How my father eluded the Gestapo by becoming someone else

By all rights, Artur should have died in the Warsaw Ghetto; instead, he simply disappeared. It took decades to learn that he survived by pretending to be a Catholic, and evading the Gestapo while hiding in a city filled with enemies.

About the book

I Want This in Writing

Heroes, Rogues, Family: Two Centuries of Survival

What began as a fact-finding mission evolved into a confrontation with a legacy of conflict shaped by decisions made under extraordinary strain. Men deeply wounded by war and dislocation acted from fear, survival, and incomplete understanding, often unaware of the harm their choices would inflict on those who came after them.

About this project

Under Other Names grew out of a sustained investigation into family histories marked by concealment, reinvention, and silence—an inquiry that gradually opened onto a wider, largely uncharted landscape of Jewish lives lived at the edges of identity.