Jordan Fontheim — The Boy Who Vanished: A Holocaust Survival Story — at Conn Ave

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The incredible true account of a young Jewish student who, in a desperate gambit to escape the Nazis, went underground in his hometown of Berlin, posing as an Aryan with another young escapee—a harrowing ordeal that he would miraculously escape not only with his life, but also with a love that would last a lifetime. In 1933, the year that Hitler seized power in Germany, Ernest Fontheim was a bookish and playful 11 year old, leading a charmed existence in Berlin with his assimilated upper class Jewish family. In less than a decade, the Fontheims' fortunes irrevocably changed: By 1941, Ernest's father had been stripped of his law license, their luxurious apartment had been usurped by a Nazi official, and Ernest, now 19, had been forced into labor at the Siemens munitions…

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