This book is unique among Holocaust memoirs. It is the story of Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs), a Jewish dental student who in 1941 was deported from his Polish Village to a Nazi labor camp and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the last days of the war. Shunted betw…
Auschwitz and Birkenau: rare photographs from wartime archives
by Baxter, Ian
fromImages of war
Auschwitz and Birkenau: rare photographs from wartime archives
by Baxter, Ian
fromImages of war
"Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vas…
Analyzing Dante's influence on Primo Levi's writings on the Holocaust, contends that Levi's first and last books - "Se questo e un uomo" (1947) and "I sommersi e I salvati" (1986) - share much with Dante's "Inferno." Both struggle with a definition of justice, ponder the weight …
This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans in…
