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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 940 EAN: 9781845117504 ISBN: 1845117506 Label: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Manufacturer: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 11, 2008 Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Release Date: December 22, 2008 Studio: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: At the height of the Holocaust it was Nazi policy to preserve small groups of "privileged" Jews for possible use in exchanges with Allied-held German civilians. One such internee--Abel Herzberg, a Dutch lawyer and writer--managed in the hell of Bergen-Belsen to keep a diary which chronicles the reality of daily existence in the camp, with its grotesquely dehumanizing conditions and the magnanimity and pettiness which they engendered. Among the passengers on the train that carried Herzberg both to Belsen and away from the camp a year later was a 9-year-old boy. Extraordinarily, that same boy--Jack Santcross--undertook to translate Herzberg's diary half a century later. The result is this unique eye-witness account of life in one of the most notorious Nazi concentrations camps and a work of great historical importance. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An Unforgettable, Inspirational Biography!I couldn't put this book down and cried at some of the torments emotionally and physically that the author went through during his imprisonment at one of the many Nazi concentration camps. Sad, but detailed look at life in the camps. Rating:  - A Unique PerspectiveBetween Two Streams by Abel J. Herzberg This book is an interesting account by a Jewish man who kept a diary in Bergen-Belsen, a well-known concentration camp. Bergen-Belsen was a camp that held Jews who were to be kept for exchange for Germans abroad, so its main function was not to serve as a death camp. Abel served as a judge of sorts on a committee for Jewish justice in the camp, so he was able to give insight into the petty laws that were broken and how justice was meted out, from ... Read More Rating: - the bestthis book is great,! you can lean a whole lot about thing you can't emagine. I would give it a 1ooooooooooooooooooooo star if I could! 
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