Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future

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Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and his Future – BIOGRAPHY OF JOE STIRLING by PHYLLIDA SCRIVENS published by Pen and Sword Books on 5th January 2016. Our list includes

I really liked how the book moved between the retelling of these escape stories, and the author’s travels and treks of the locations, decades later.Some of his prose didn’t seem to overly ‘gel’ together: his descriptions were excellent and quite engaging but his explanations about certain aspects such as technical war information and rolling off facts -although crucial to the story- seemed more forced. Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the run in Italy, surviving months in hiding and then a hazardous climb over the Abruzzo mountains. Delighted to have been invited to give an online talk about Escaping Hitler and the life of Joe Stirling.

Allied prisoners used all kinds of forgery and engineering tactics to tunnel out of a German Prisoner of War camp. They told us before the talk that they were there because Ilan’s family had Koblenz war-time connections. These are just some of the stories told in heart-stopping detail as Monty Halls takes us along the freedom trails out of occupied Europe, from the immense French escape lines to lesser-known routes in Italy and Slovenia. In 1938 the deteriorating situation in Germany and the enormous increase in the number of people who had been made homeless led the American president Franklin D. Phyllida studied for an MA in Creative Non-Fiction with Biography from the University of East Anglia, graduating in 2014.Refusing to let the tragedy of the Holocaust embitter him and ruin the rest of his life, he brought energy and drive to community and charity projects, becoming Sheriff of Norwich, and built a successful and respected business in the city. It's impossible to add all the information into a 40 minute episode and this is where books always win out. Of the approximately 185,000 Jews still remaining, about 18,000 to 20,000 still managed to leave the country when the Second World War broke out.

In addition, the Netherlands gradually admitted small numbers of German refugees and the Committee for Jewish Refugees was founded in Amsterdam in 1933.Mindful that in early November Joe and I will be undertaking our final speaking engagement of 2017, to the good ladies of the Hopton-on-Sea Women’s Institute, I thought I would take a look through our visits since Escaping Hitler was published in January 2016. He has written several books including The Fisherman's Apprentice and the Monty Halls' Great Escape series, and is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. Hitler commits suicide, and in their groups, flee through the ruins, across dead soldiers, shell shattered government buildings and the constant noise of gunfire.

The well-illustrated 'ESCAPING HITLER'S BUNKER' is a page turner, giving the reader a glimpse of the fear gripping the leaders of the Third Reich, and the fate of escape parties. After we had completed our usual book signing, Ilan and his wife Anne approached our table and Ilan spoke directly to Joe. However, from 25 November 1941, Germany collectively stripped all German Jews living outside the territory of their nationality, insofar as they had not yet been individually “ausgebürgert”. Last evening, 13th October 2020, I was delighted to share my presentation via Zoom with the good ladies of Youlgrave Women’s Institute. Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe.

I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. On this special 75th anniversary of VE Day, I would like to share the short passage from Escaping Hitler (Pen and Sword Books 2016), written directly from Joe’s memories of that time, spent in Bramley near Basingstoke, serving with the Ordnance Corps and where he met his wife to be Jean Skitmore.