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Recollections and Reflections - How I Turned Despair into an Appreciation of Life (Paperback) Loot Price: R554
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Recollections and Reflections - How I Turned Despair into an Appreciation of Life (Paperback): Jack Brauns, Martin Gilbert

Recollections and Reflections - How I Turned Despair into an Appreciation of Life (Paperback)

Jack Brauns, Martin Gilbert

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This memoir contains many fascinating vignettes about pre-war childhood in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, a child's-eye-view of the lost world of East European Jewry. It tells the tormented story of the Kovno ghetto as seen by a youngster whose father was a leading figure in the medical life of the ghetto. The author then recounts the long, harsh journey of entering the gates of Dante's Inferno into the whirlpool of the Holocaust to Stutthof and Dachau and moves on to describe his liberation. The author also provides a full and fascinating focus on the post-war years: recovery, organizing education in Italy, and the struggles of starting a new life in the United States, including the high point of obtaining the release of the author's parents from the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Jack Brauns has written a most personal and engaging tale. Not only is it a powerful factual narrative, but it is also an uplifting one that rises above the cruelties and savageries of the H

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Imprint: Vallentine Mitchell
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2007
First published: March 2007
Authors: Jack Brauns • Martin Gilbert
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 978-0-85303-749-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 0-85303-749-3
Barcode: 9780853037491

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