Lost to the Shoah : eight lives / Vera Schiff with Jeff McLaughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schiff, Vera, 1926- author.

McLaughlin, Jeff, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Theresienstadt (Concentration camp).

Dachau (Concentration camp).

Schwarzheide (Concentration camp).

Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp).

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.

World War, 1939-1945.

Internment camps.

Nazi concentration camps.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

v, 264 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

"It is important to remember not just what the Holocaust was but to remember the individuals who were the subjects of unrelenting Nazi brutalities. Written by a survivor about the people she knew and cared for, these eight stories fight against the depiction of Jews as victims and victims only, and individualize a tragedy that is too often abstracted into dates and statistics. Amidst the dramatic narrative, there is a brutal honesty and frankness that makes these stories far more infuriating, sad, and shocking than any fictional attempt to convey what it was like to be human in such inhuman circumstances. These biographies remind readers of the consequences of hate upon the fragile beauty and complexity of human life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Helen: Radiant Mistress

George: Musselman

Rita: Tragic Beauty

Fred: Informer

Marianne: Kapo

Bobby: Death Marcher

Hanus: Partisan

Jossl: Zionist.

Notes:

Includes index.

"[A] new publication of [eight] personal histories (originally titled Hitler's Inferno)."--Introduction.

Other Edition:

Revision of: Schiff, Vera, 1926-

ISBN:

9781476680453

1476680450

OCLC:

1130769047