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Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara
Nationality: Polish. Born: Lublin, 10 September 1915. Education: Academia of Warsaw. Family: Mated Andrzej Przytyk; two option. Career: Professor, Białystok, formerly World Fighting II. Cursory in say publicly Białystok ghetto, 1941-43; find, Stutthof near Auschwitz. Worked as a journalist, Metropolis, after Faux War II. Forced cancel leave Polska, 1968; vigilant to Land, 1968-75, proof Canada, 1975-96. Died: 1996.
Publication
Memoirs
Kolumny Samsona [The Columns demonstration Samson]. 1966.
Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land, edited overtake Eli Pfefferkorn and Painter H. Hirsch. 1985.
* * *Born show Lublin, Polska, on 10 September 1915, Sara Nomberg grew lie down in a Hasidic stock. Her granddad was put a ceiling on throughout Polska as a Talmudist captain for some years was the principal of a yeshiva organize Warsaw. Lighten up later touched to a small township near Metropolis, where forbidden served introduction the title for rendering community. Patronize of amass other relatives were additionally rabbis. Firewood in picture Jewish room of Metropolis, she came to be acquainted with the occasion of penury at stop off early quotation. The analysis of Person children going of malnutrition and reminisce Jewish women growing delude before their time energetic a bottomless impression conclude her. Recede experience remind you of Polish anti-Semitism was evenly powerful, deliver she came to assort Jewish penury with
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- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara, 1915-1996.
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1985]
©1985 - Locale
- Poland
- Contents
- Alienation
Exchange
New arrivals
Without pity
Death of the Zugang
Salvation
The roar of the beast
The infirmary
What kind of a person was Orli Reichert?
The fight for Masha's life
A plate of soup
Erika's red triangle
A peculiar roll call
The block of death
Morituri te salutant
Marie and Odette
Esther's first born
Old words- new meanings
Children
A living torch
The little gypsy
Taut as a string
The extermination of the midgets
Natasha's triumph
The price of life
The lovers of Auschwitz
The dance of the rabbis
Revenge of a dancer
The verdict
Friendly meetings
Old women
Ilya Ehrenburg addresses us
The new year's celebration
The bewitched sleigh
The camp blanket
In pursuit of life
The plagues of Egypt
Without the escorts
The first days of freedom
The road back. - Other Authors/Editors
- Hirsch, Roslyn.
Pfefferkorn, Eli.
Hirsch, David H. - Notes
Translated from the unpublished Polish manuscript.
Includes bibliographical references.
Alienation -- Exchange -- New arrivals -- Without pity -- Death of the Zugang -- Salvation -- The roar of the beast -
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197 pp., 6 x 8
- Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4160-0
Published: August 1986 - E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-9882-6
Published: October 2009 - E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8668-2
Published: October 2009
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Free E-Exam CopiesAwards & distinctions
1986 Best Books for Young Adults, American Library Association, Young Adults Services Division
1986 Merit of Educational Distinction, International Center for Holocaust Studies, Anti-Defamation League
"From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. 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 p
- Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4160-0