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Lädt ... Unser Holocaustvon Amir Gutfreund
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A wonderful book, difficult to put down. Gutfreund has a deft touch with a difficult subject. I tend to avoid literature about the Holocaust, but this was a very, very good read. I've also liked Amos Oz' A Tale of Love and Darkness and Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and I think their writings share similar attributes. A young Israeli becomes obssessed by his need to tell the story of Holocaust survivors, both from his family and his neighborhood. An elegantly written book, with contemporary life in Israel interwoven with the death camp accounts. The author fears not those who coldly and efficiently did their duty with no personal gain or pleasure, but those who came to understand that the Holocaust allowed them to pursue their basest, most psychopathic and criminal impulses with no restraints or recriminations or accountablity. That segment of humanity is always with us, self-centered and amoral. We must not delude ourselves that the evil of the Holocaust was an aberration. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a 'Law of Compression' in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. This was more difficult than collecting relatives; nobody would tell them any details because they weren't yet Old Enough. The intrepid pair won't let this stop them, and their quest for knowledge results in adventures both funny and alarming, as they try to unearth their neighbors' stories. As Amir grows up, his obsession with understanding the Holocaust remains with him, and finally Old Enough to know, the unforgettable cast of characters that populate his world open their hearts, souls, and pasts to him... Translated by Jessica Cohen from the Hebrew Shoah Shelanu. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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If you're strongly affected by detailed stories about what happened during the Holocaust, you might want to skip this book--it contains a lot of those, both factual and fictional. ( )