Recommendations1. Letters and Photos2. Seeking Shelter3. Eisenbahnstrasse4. The Jacoby Family5. Alone6. Hiding7. The War Is Over8. Life in America9. Honoring the RescuersAfterwordNotesAbout the AuthorHolocaust Survivor True StoriesHolocaust Survivor MemoirsFurther ReadingA Multi-Generational Holocaust Memoir of Jews hiding in Berlin that reminds us of the Power of KindnessIn the heart of Berlin, Ernst Joseph and his mother, Betty, survived the Holocaust by hiding in a small room for 27 months, protected by an ordinary German couple. In the suburbs of the city, Lilo Jacoby survived by working as a maid for a family who entertained Nazis, a family who also protected her with food, shelter, and false identity papers. As the Nazis came to power, German Jewish families witnessed a country they identified as their homeland betray them. Millions died, but a few courageous souls risked their lives to save those they could. After Lilo’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, and her brother to Auschwitz, she was saved by a miracle—a chance encounter with a former schoolmate who defied Hitler’s orders and sheltered a Jewish girl in her home. When restrictive US entry quotas prevented Ernst and his parents from leaving Germany, a German couple offered them shelter. For more than two years, Ernst’s parents never ventured outside, but Ernst frequently walked the streets to buy food on the black market and to see the girl he loved, Lilo.In Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir, Ernst and Lilo’s daughter, Evelyn, tells her family’s story. Piecing the events together from her father’s letters, taped conversations with her mother, original documents from the International Tracing Service, and her own observations from trips to Germany, she fills in the gaps of her parents’ past. Drawing from her memories of her New Jersey childhood, she recounts how her parents settled there after the war, doing their best to build a new life and put their trauma behind them. The story of how Ernst and Lilo survived, lovingly told by their daughter, is a tribute to human resilience, to the moral courage of a few honorable people, and to the hefty dose of luck that tied all the pieces together.A Multi-Generational Holocaust Memoir of Jews hiding in Berlin that reminds us of the Power of Kindness