Eva and Otto
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exile
fascism
German opposition
Holocaust
refugees
resistance to Hitler
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- ISBN 9781557538819
- Weight: 1025g
- Dimensions: 154 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eva and Otto is a truestory about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910–1991) and Otto Pfister (1900–1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans—Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic—who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing—directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation—also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.
The authors are the three children of Eva and Otto:
Tom Pfister was a partner at the lawfirm of Latham & Watkins, LLP, where he practiced in its Los Angeles office for over thirty years before retiring. He currently serves on the boards of several non profit organizations and provides pro bono legal advice for them. Tom received his AB from Stanford University (majoring in history and German), and spent a year of study with Stanford programs in Germany. He received his JD from Harvard Law School.
Kathy Pfister is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Amherst, Massachusetts. For many years, she worked as a therapist in the Counseling Service at Mount Holyoke College. During that time, she also served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the Smith College Graduate School of Social Work. Kathy received her AB from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter Pfister is senior counsel at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, LLP, where he has practiced in its San Francisco office for over forty years. He previously served as chairman of that firm. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Peter spent a year in the University of California Education Abroad program at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He received his JD from Yale Law School.
Tom Pfister was a partner at the lawfirm of Latham & Watkins, LLP, where he practiced in its Los Angeles office for over thirty years before retiring. He currently serves on the boards of several non profit organizations and provides pro bono legal advice for them. Tom received his AB from Stanford University (majoring in history and German), and spent a year of study with Stanford programs in Germany. He received his JD from Harvard Law School.
Kathy Pfister is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Amherst, Massachusetts. For many years, she worked as a therapist in the Counseling Service at Mount Holyoke College. During that time, she also served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the Smith College Graduate School of Social Work. Kathy received her AB from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter Pfister is senior counsel at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, LLP, where he has practiced in its San Francisco office for over forty years. He previously served as chairman of that firm. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Peter spent a year in the University of California Education Abroad program at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He received his JD from Yale Law School.
