Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 » (Reprint)

Götz Aly, the author of Hitler’s Beneficiaries and Architects of Annihilation, among other books, is one of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. He has been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches at the Free University of Berlin.

Biography of Holocaust victim Marion Samuel

The New York Times - Alana Newhouse

In his quest to learn about Marion, who was 11 when she was killed, Aly draws on every imaginable source: He places an article in a German newspaper and scours municipal records, old Berlin telephone books and even switchboard.com—to dig up what is quite probably every recorded word and artifact relating to Marion and her family…Into the Tunnel is more an exercise in historical inquiry than a rich narrative of a girl's life. But Aly can hardly be blamed for this. Marion Samuel did not live long enough, or visibly enough, to leave behind more clues.

Contents Preface by Ruth Kluger....................ix
Foreword by Raul Hilberg....................xiii
1: Who Was This Marion Samuel?....................1
2: Once Upon a Time in Arnswalde and Ueckermünde....................14
3: People Fall into a Hole....................37
4: Portrait of a Persecuted Family....................83
Afterword by Walther Seinsch....................109
Notes....................113
Bibliography....................119