Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany by Marie Jalowicz Simon (2015-09-08) by Marie Jalowicz Simon

Author:Marie Jalowicz Simon [SIMON, MARIE JALOWICZ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History / Holocaust, HISTORY / Military / World War II, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, History / Europe / Eastern
Amazon: B01N07LP00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1755-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

By this time Eva Deutschkron had run out of new fashion ideas to keep Frau Janicke happy. She had once dreamed of being a fashion designer, and she had already designed a beach outfit, a walking costume and evening dresses for her friend. It was February, so I suggested, “Why not design a Carnival costume?”

“Oh, what a good idea. I can spend a whole afternoon with that,” replied Eva. She was genuinely grateful to me.

When she showed us her costume designs, we went on to talk about New Year’s Eve, and Gerda Janicke mentioned the custom of telling fortunes from the shapes taken by molten lead dropped into water. That reminded me of my encounter with the clairvoyant, and the idea came up of asking for her services again. “I’d really like to know whether my apartment is going to be bombed,” said Frau Janicke.

I knew where Frau Klemmstein lived, but to get permission for an extra outing I claimed that I would have to ask Frau Koch. Trying to telephone her could take a long time, because she was often out and about in the extensive laundry building where she worked. “Stay out as long as you need,” said Frau Janicke generously.

I used this opportunity to celebrate my recovery. I ordered and ate the cheap standard dish of the day in two different cafés, a cabbage one-pot dish and a swede one-pot dish—that was luxury, even thought there wasn’t a gram of meat or fat in either, but at least they were hot. Then I went to a shabby coffee-house for a cup of ersatz coffee. I could be as extravagant as this only because I had prospects of money—I had decided that my visit to Frau Klemmstein would be purely fictional. I was going to keep the money for her clairvoyance and for the telephone and travelling, and I would spend it on myself.

I went happily back to Schierker Strasse, told them that Frau Koch had given me the name of the village where the clairvoyant lived, and that when I got there I would have to ask the way, because fortune-telling was illegal. It cost five marks per fortune. Then Frau Janicke cast the lead herself, and a woman she knew joined her. On the day when I had arranged to visit Trude Neuke for the first time since leaving Zeuthen, I told them that I was going to see the clairvoyant.

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