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The Diary of Bergen-Belsen is a unique, deeply political survivor's
diary from the final year inside the notorious concentration camp.
Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of
the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived
experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only
resistance fighter to record on her own experience inside the
camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity and attention to
the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps. Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous. Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, Drinking the Sea at Gaza makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart.
In 1949 Jerusalem, a young girl knows better than to ask about the
sudden darkness in nearby Lifta. She carries the memory of a place
once filled with the sounds of stone-cutting men and the sight of
women in long, brightly embroidered dresses carrying fruit baskets
on their heads. Sixty years later, she finally faces the answer to
her own unspoken question. In 2009, an 85-year-old Holocaust
survivor who worked at the Nuremburg trials--and still dreams about
the medical "experiment" photos she once filed into endless
boxes--now dreams of sailing into Gaza with help and hope for her
Palestinian "brothers and sisters." Reading like a memoir, this
anthology combines 14 women's stories into a collage of unbearable
loss, unspeakable horrors, incredible strength, and a belief in the
unwavering power of truth. Seeing the Israeli occupation through
each storyteller's eyes, our well-worn filters fall away, and we
begin to see as our own these women's journeys and join them in
their quest for justice and lasting peace.
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