Ebook: Someday you will understand: my father's private World War II

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author's Note; Preface: The Maginot Line of Memory; Prologue; Part One: Hidden in Plain Sight; Chapter 1 Walking My Father's Labyrinth; Chapter 2 Bombs, Bullets, and Lies; Chapter 3 Vichy, Lyon, and the Flag of Rags; Chapter 4 No Exit: Marseille, Fascist Spain, and the Nightmare Ocean Crossing; Chapter 5 Unraveling the Chaos: A Kid at the Dwight School; Part Two: The Long Road to Ritchie; Chapter 6 Drafted; Chapter 7 The Ritchie Boy Takes On the Pentagon; Part Three: Return from Exile;Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium. On the eve of the German invasion, in May 1940, the family began its second escape. Their sixteen-month odyssey took them through the chaos of battle in France and the dangers of living clandestinely as Jews in occupied territory, before they finally boarded the notorious freighter SS Navemar in Cadiz, Spain, to be among the last Jewish refugees admitted to the United States before Pearl Harbor. Within two years of his arrival in.