• 13.11.2023.
• Zagreb, HR

New title: „The Passenger“

The Passenger, a novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz has just been published!

Otto Silbermann is a wealthy merchant of Jewish origin who lives in Berlin. He fought in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross, and before the Nazi takeover he was a respected member of the Berlin burgoeisie.
One evening after the Kristallnacht in November 1938, while the Nazis are at his door, Silbermann leaves his Aryan wife and escapes out the back door of his home and gets on the train, hoping to wait for the morning and the situation to calm down. But faced with the bitter reality of the troubles yet to follow, with a briefcase full of money that he managed to save from the Nazis, he travels aimlessly on trains in Germany, trying not to catch eyes and somehow escape from Germany. During this state of emergency, Silbermann meets numerous individuals, some of whom, like him, are outcasts of the Nazi regime, while others half-heartedly accept that ideology. Refusing to accept the reality of the persecution of Jews in the new Nazi Germany, Silbermann desperately tries to cross the border in different ways, realizing that his own life is more and more threatened by the minute.

You can read mre about the book here.