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HalfJewFull Life: The Unlikely Journey Of A Voluntary Jew From Nazi Persecution To The American Dream
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From Berlin To The Bronx, From Holocaust Survivor To American Success Story, This Riveting, FastPaced Biography Traces The Extraordinary Life Of Gary Pips Phillips Who Defied The Odds At Every Turn. With An Aryan Mother And Jewish Father, Pips Could Have Escaped Much Of The HolocaustS Horrors. Instead, He Made A Fateful Decision At Age 13 To Become A Bar Mitzvah Just As The Nuremberg Laws Were Enacted, Effectively Choosing To Be Labeled A Jew Under Nazi Rule. PipsS Wartime Experience Is Marked By Daring Escapes, Improbable Rescues, And Survival While Hiding Deep Within Nazi Berlin. Captured Four Times, He Escaped Thrice, Choosing To Remain In Nazi Custody The Fourth Time As There Was Nowhere To Run In BombedOut Berlin. At His Place Of Confinement, He Met His Future Wife, Olga Horvath, Who Had Been Imprisoned After Surviving Auschwitz And The Death March To Bergen Belsen. After Their Marriage In Chaotic PostWar Berlin, They Emigrated To The Usa To Start A New Life.Arriving In New York With Nothing, Pips Rose From Waiter To CoOwner Of The WorldS Largest Photo AgencyDespite Never Owning A Camera. Unlike Pips, Olga Was Unable To Escape The Shadow Of Her Holocaust Experiences, And In A Horrifying Twist, She Threw Herself Off The Roof Of Their Gleaming Luxury HighRise After More Than 50 Years Of Marriage, Leaving Pips GriefStricken, But Also Able To Reinvent Himself One More Time. This Cinematic Life Brims With Chance, Love, Loss, Resilience, And Reinvention, Culminating In A Poignant Exploration Of Jewish Identity, Memory, And Legacy. PipsS Story Is A Tribute To The Power Of Choice, Endurance, And The Human Will To Belong.
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