Reviews

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck

im_lovin_itt's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

ang_elica's review

challenging dark hopeful slow-paced

3.5

meganiris1004's review

5.0

Gad Beck was one of the lucky ones. If ‘lucky’ is even the word for it.

I honestly can’t put into words the emotions I felt reading this book. It is amazing to see how much love someone can experience in a time of epic loss.

medievaljenga's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

haboonhashi's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

michaelkerr's review against another edition

3.0

It's hard to imagine facing arrest and incarceration in a concentration camp for being gay - but this is the world Gad Beck describes. It's even harder to imagine the treatment the author received after the war ended. Not cheerful, but worth reading.