Dorit Oliver-Wolff

This is a most unusual Holocaust story.

This is the true story of a Jewish girl named Dorit from Yugoslavia whose mother took her on the run during WW2 because Dorit's mother refused to wear the yellow star. Dorit spent 3 years running and hiding from the Nazis, never knowing where the next meal would be coming from. Never knowing where they would sleep each night. And never knowing if any person she spoke to, would later dob them into the Nazis.

Because Dorits father was from Yugoslavia and her mother was Hungarian, Dorit spent most of the war years travelling back and forth between those 2 countries. She grew up speaking 3 languages fluently - Serbo-Croat, Hungarian and German.

After the war ended, Dorit's mother took her to the new Jewish land of Israel, where Dorit acquired the nick name of Dorit. Her birth name was Theodora. Here Dorit added Hebrew and French to her language skills.

Later Dorit attended school in both Turkey and Germany and then joined a dancing troupe to obtain an artists visa because she was now a "Stateless" person. She could have applied for a Yugoslav passport, but that meant being forced to return to Yugoslavia under Tito and Dorit refused to do that.

So she remained stateless for several years as the Dancing troupe travelled around Eastern Europe and performed in sleazy bars and run-down theatres. At age 19, Dorit married a British man in the RAF in Cyprus and was finally able to acquire a British passport.

The marriage did not last, so Dorit went to University in Munich and was discovered singing in a Jazz bar. She was offered a record deal and became the famous pop star Dorit Oliver (her stage name).

In the early 1960s, due to a financial issues, Dorit chose to give up her singing career after she married Frank Wolff and they settled down in England.

Dorit now speaks out about life under the Nazis as someone who truly lived during that time, and not as someone who was sent to the camps.

An excellent biographical memoir. I gave this 5 stars.… (meer)