ReadRS: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz.
ReadRS: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz.
This is the fictional account of Otto Silberman, a prosperous Jewish businessman who takes flight when brown-shirted thugs pound on the door of his Berlin apartment as the “night of broken glass” – Kristallnacht – is unfolding. Written in the immediate aftermath of the November 1938 pogrom by a 23 year old, it was published […]