The most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitlers Germany is either emigration or deportation to concentration camps. But there was another, much rarer, side to Jewish life at that time: denial of your origin to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it. You refuse to believe that you are Jewish.How to Be a Refugee is Simon Mays gripping account of how three sisters his mother and his two aunts grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage.