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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Cairo (Egypt) Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Personal narratives Human experimentation in medicine Jews, Egyptian New York (State) New York Biography Mengele, Josef 1911-1979 Physicians Germany Biography Twins Biography War criminals Germany Biography World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities PolandLagnado, Lucette.
Summary: Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1991