"A...searing account
of a human being
who remained human even
in hell."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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Norse
Woman Battles Nazis
Becomes
Norwegian Heroine
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In
the Hands of My Enemy:
One Woman's Story of World War II
by
SIGRID HEIDE
Translated by Norma Johansen, as arranged
by Ethel Keshner
ISBN: 0-913337-29-3; Hardcover; 192 pages;
Library of Congress Catalog #: 96-34888;
Retail $25.00
In 1946, author Sigrid
Heide compiled her experiences
as a prisoner of the
Germans during World War II into a book published in Norway,
Kanskje i morgen--.
Autobiographical, the book describes the experiences of a woman named Tora.
Heide's account of
Tora's is a fascinating historical account of her own courageous life:
Tora was Sigrid Heide.
In the Hands
of My Enemy is the first English translation of Sigrid Heide's
ordeal.
"The narrative
has the sensory immediacy of a slap.
The terror can
be palpable...."
--PUBLISHERS
WEEKLY
Ms. Heide served as
a courier for the Norwegian resistance. At the time of her capture by Gestapo
Agents, she
operated under the
cover name "Markus." The Germans, eager to stem the flow of subversive
information, launched a
manhunt. They were
surprised to discover that Markus was, in fact, a woman.
Heide knew "...when
the world has been reduced to
a naked prison
cell, life must be defined in a new way...."
--AFTENPOSTEN,
Norway's leading newspaper
A second surprise
awaited Nazi interrogators. Ms. Heide, herself the victim of a torture-induced
betrayal, refused to give
her captors the information
they demanded. Tortured repeatedly, kept in solitary confinement for months
at a time,
Ms. Heide never revealed
anything to her captors. She was eventually transferred to the German concentration
camps at Ravensbruck,
north of Berlin, and Mauthausen in Austria. Upon her return to Norway at
the end of the war,
Heide learned that
Norwegians doubted such camps even existed. Her rewards for her heroism
were lifelong pain
and a permanent limp.
Sigrid Heide passed away in April 1997 in Oslo.
"Heide's story
is plainspoken but immensely powerful."
--PUBLISHERS
WEEKLY
"FOR THAT HOLOCAUST, FOR THAT
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF LIFE,
THERE WAS NO POSSIBLE ATONEMENT.
NOT BY ONE GENERATION.
NOT EVEN BY TEN GENERATIONS."
--SIGRID HEIDE
In the Hands of My Enemy:
One Woman's Story of World
War II
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