Stella Paperback by Peter Wyden

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor (1993-10-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385471794
• Item Weight: 464.94 grams
• Dimensions: 20.19 x 13.11 x 2.54 cm

The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew  as a child, and who later became notorious as a  "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down  hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing  chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three  murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the  trauma inherited by her illegitimate daughter in  Israel.

16 pages of B&W photographs.

About the Author

Peter Wyden was a former writer for Newsweek and Executive Editor of Ladies' Home Journal. For a decade he was the president of Peter Wyden Books, a publishing house specializing in works about psychology and medicine. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including The Intimate Enemy (with Dr. George R. Bach); Day One: Before Hiroshima and After; and Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. Born in Berlin, he died in Danbury, Connecticut in 1998.