Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz - Couverture rigide

Meyer, Alwin

 
9781509545506: Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1509545506 ISBN 13 : 9781509545506
Editeur : Polity Press, 2022

Synopsis

The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 children and juveniles were deported to Auschwitz, only 750 were liberated in the death camp at the end of January 1945. Most of them were under 15 years of age. Alwin Meyer's masterwork is the culmination of decades of research and interviews with the children and their descendants, sensitively reconstructing their stories before, during and after Auschwitz.

The camp would remain with them throughout their lives: on their forearms, as a tattooed number, and in their minds, in the memory of heart-rending separation from parents and siblings, medical experiments, abject confusion, ceaseless hunger and a perpetual longing for home and security. Once the purported liberation came, there was no blueprint for piecing together personal biographies after the unthinkable had happened. Many of the children, often orphaned, had forgotten their names or ages, and had only fragmented understandings of where they came from. While some struggled to reconnect to the parents from whom they had been separated, others had known nothing other than the camp. Some children grew up without the ability to trust and to play. Survival is not yet life - it is an in-between stage which requires individuals to learn how to live. The liberated children had to learn how to be young again in order to grow into adults like others did.

This remarkable book tells the stories of the most vulnerable victims of the Nazis' systematic attempt to extinguish innocent lives, and rescues their voices from historical oblivion. It is a unique testimony to the horrific suffering endured by millions in humanity's darkest hour.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alwin Meyer is a prizewinning author, journalist and curator who lives in Germany.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509545506
ISBN 13 
9781509545506
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
512
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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