The Past In Hiding

This book is the story of a historian, Mark Roseman, and his relationship with Marianne Ellenbogen - an elderly Liverpo ol resident with a remarkable past. This chance meeting between an expert on Germany and a survior of the most terrible event in Germany's history had an impact that neither party could have anticipated.Roseman interviewed Marianne Ellenbogen several times about her experiences, but then - after Marianne's death in 1996 - he found himself with access to a vast range of papers secreted in her house - photos, diaries, letters. The Past in Hiding is about the extraordinary physical and emotional journey these papers provoked - it is a detective story, a love story, a story of great courage and survival under impossible conditions.