Overview
Based on Siegfried Kra's own childhood, Twilight in Danzig is an important addition to pre-Holocaust literature and a unique chronicle of European Jewish culture that reads like a thriller. Young Jonas Kruger's parents. are scions of Danzig society, his father a coal merchant, his mother a lovely socialite. But the rise of Hitler in 1933 forces them to examine their identity and make difficult moral choices: Jonas' governess secretly enrolls him in the Nazi Youth; Mr. Kruger buys open tickets on the Queen Mary, but keeps his family in Danzig, hoping the madness will blow over. But soon the anti-Jewish laws will reach Danzig and the Krugers will face the most difficult decision of their lives: whether to try to reform and resist from within, or to flee penniless to a country that doesn't want them, leaving their larger family to an unspeakable fate.
- | Author: Siegfried Kra
- | Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 15, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 248 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 0912887591
- | ISBN-13: 9780912887593
