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Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
by Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara, trans. by Roslyn Hirsch, ed. by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch
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- ISBN 13
- 9780807816295
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Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. very good, good. 185, footnotes, glossary, some wear to DJ edges. The author was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination. Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, "Auschwitz" convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances. With consummate understatement Nomberg-Przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings. In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion. This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz. From her portraits of camp personalities, an extraordinary and horrifying profile emerges of Dr. Josef Mengele, whose medical experiments resulted in the slaughter of nearly half a million Jews. Nomberg-Przytyk's job as an attendant in Mengele's hospital allowed her to observe this Angel of Death firsthand and to provide us with the most complete description to date of his monstrous activities.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
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- Title
- Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
- Author
- Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara, trans. by Roslyn Hirsch, ed. by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First? Edition. First? Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0807816299
- ISBN 13
- 9780807816295
- Publisher
- University of NC Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Anti-Semitism, Concentration Camps, Genocide, Auschwitz, Nazis, Survival, Mengele, Holocaust
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