Max / Alex Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Alex, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.

World War, 1939-1945.

Biography.

Blatt, Max.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 262 pages, 16 unnumberd pages of plates (some colour) : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Max : a gripping and deeply moving tribute to a friend and Jewish Nazi-resistance figure.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.

Summary:

I began to see that whatever I might write about Max, discover about him, piece together with those old shards of memory, it would be his influence on the friendships of the living that would frame his story in the present. According to your 1939 Gestapo file, you adopted the cover names Landau and Maxim. The name your mother and father gave you was Moses. We knew you as Max. You had worked in secret. From an early age you concealed yourself - like the grey box beetle in the final country of your exile, maturing on its journey out of sight beneath the bark of the tree. You risked death every day. And when at last the struggle became hopeless, you escaped the hell and found a haven in China first, and then Australia, where you became one of those refugees who, in their final place of exile, chose not death but silence and obscurity. Alex Miller followed the faint trail of Max Blatt's early life for five years. Max's story unfolded, slowly at first, from the Melbourne Holocaust Centre's records then to Berlin's Federal Archives. From Berlin, Miller travelled to Max's old home town of Wroclaw in Poland. And finally in Israel with Max's niece, Liat Shoham, and her brother Yossi Blatt, at Liat's home in the moshav Shadmot Dvora in the Lower Galilee, the circle of friendship was closed and the mystery of Max's legendary silence was unmasked.

Contents:

What we know

The house of truth

'Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland'

The forest of the dead

The lucidity of the damned

Jacob Rosenberg and the pack of wolves

Josef, Lea and Sara

Hanna Krall

Reading the sources

The innocent faces of four cubs

A green pump

Olek

Two beautiful cows

His mysterious Polish period

Gazing into the void

Liat

It's know as the Jerusalem effect

A sense of wholeness.

ISBN:

9781760878160

1760878162

OCLC:

1197918982

Publisher Number:

99986099655