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Boy 30529 - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Boy 30529 - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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List price R410
Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
You Save R37 (9%)
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"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an
untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions
ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the
majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have
understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march.' These were
coined later, by outsiders." Boy 30529 tells the story of a child
who at the age of twelve lost everything: hope, home, and even his
own identity. Born into a respectable Czech family, Felix's early
years were idyllic. But when Nazi persecution threatened in 1938,
his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family
to emigrate there. His efforts came too late, and his wife and
children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers. Thus begins
a harrowing tale of survival, horror and determination. Over the
following years, Felix survived five concentration camps, including
Terezin, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as, by the skin of his
teeth, the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. Losing both his
brother and mother in the camps, Felix was liberated at Buchenwald
and eventually reunited at the age of seventeen with his father in
Britain, where they built a new life together. Boy 30529 is an
extraordinary memoir, as well as a meditation on the nature of
memory. It helps us understand why the Holocaust remains a singular
presence at the heart of historical debate.
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