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By Leslie Baruch Brent. 308 pp., illustrated. New Romney, England, Bank House Books, 2009. $32. ISBN 978-1-90440-844-4.

This captivating memoir tells the story of an extraordinary life lived against the backdrop of one of the most cataclysmic events of modern times. Leslie Brent, a world-renowned immunologist and transplantation biologist as well as a codiscoverer (with Peter Medawar and Rupert Billingham) of acquired immunologic tolerance, was born Lothar Baruch to German-Jewish parents. He had an idyllic childhood until the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Brent vividly recalls frightening childhood experiences, among them an incident of SA thugs (the Sturmabteilung, or Nazi storm troopers) marching past his house while singing the Horst Wessel song with its anti-Jewish lyrics. He also . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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