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Aimée & Jaguar : a love story, Berlin 1943

Fischer, Erica, 1943-2015
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Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. It was love almost at first sight. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. But their luck didn't last. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported. At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimée and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition.
Main title:
Aimée & Jaguar : a love story, Berlin 1943 / Erica Fischer ; translated from the German by Edna McCown ; with Allison Brown.
Author:
Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition.
Imprint:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2015.New York Harper Perennial, 2015.©1995
Collation:
x, 362 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Notes:
'Updated edition' -- Cover."Originally published as Aimée & Jaguar in hardcover in Germany in 1994 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.Originally published Germany : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1994.
ISBN:
9780062390370 (pbk)0062390376 (pbk)
Dewey class:
943.155086092B943.155
LC class:
DD857.W87
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
448559
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the Dock-BiographyBIOG 943.155 FISCAvailable
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