Between two streams : a diary from Bergen-Belsen / Abel J. Herzberg ; translated from the Dutch by Jack Santcross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzberg, Abel J. (Abel Jacob), 1893-1989.

Standardized Title:

Tweestromenland. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Herzberg, Abel J. (Abel Jacob), 1893-1989--Diaries.

Herzberg, Abel J.

Herzberg, Abel J. (Abel Jacob), 1893-1989.

Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Personal narratives -- Dutch.

Diaries.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 221 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2008.

Summary:

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. Held in the special Sternlager at Bergen-Belsen their privilege amounted to being kept alive rather than gassed, although 70 per cent of the internees perished before the camp's liberation, victims of disease, starvation, beatings or sheer despair. One such privileged 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. He describes the relations between inmates and the civic code of the internees.

Contents:

Diary.

Notes:

Originally published: London: I. B. Tauris, 1997.

ISBN:

9781845117504

1845117506

OCLC:

228401299