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Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Sara Nomberg-Przuytyk | | Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press | | Release date: | 01 June, 1985 | | List price: | $16.95 |
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Auschwitz: A true story |
| The story of an unfortunate Polish woman imprisoned for being Jewish, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk does an excellent job of recreating the events in her life. It's a chilling tale that reminds us what a terrible place the world can be. You always want to know what is coming next. Horror after horror is revealed in such frequency that it leave you wondering if it was exaggerated or untrue. "Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land" is an eye-opening tale of survival. Through it all, still, people survived, one way or another. If you have not read it already, read it. You will be riveted in your seat and left with an incredible sense of gratefulness. |
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makes "night" look like a trip to disneyland |
| This book blew my breath away. I've read way too many holocaust memoirs, and this is most powerful one in existence (Maus a close second, but for very different reasons, dealing w/ before and after). I'm not sure if it is because of the female narrator and experience, but this pulls you in way too far, and it's a wrenching experience. And it's not necessarily a well-written book, she recycles the same three or four metaphors over and over again, but it doesn't undermine the narrative. No one should be allowed to be human until they've read this. |
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One of the best books on the Shoah |
| One of the criticisms I have of American presentations on the holocaust is that the people in the Lagers portrayed as flat, one dimensional "victims:" No character, no personality, no conflict. Primo Levi in "The Drowned and the Saved" first introduced the concept of "The Grey Zone"--prisoners who saved themselves, even growing fat and living in luxury, directly at the expense of the other prisoners. Ms. Nomberg-Przuytyk perfectly illustrates this point in her Tales. Each "tale" is a short vinnet, illustrating a concept. Eary on, she explains how the beatings & mistreatment at the hands of the SS were bad, but not unexpected. What really hurt, though, was the beatings & mistreatment at the hands of other inmates. That was shocking. If you want a good picture of this Grotesque land, here are three books: Ms. Nomberg-Przuytyk's, Levi's "Drowned & the Saved," and "This Way for the Gas, Ladies & Gentlemen" by Tadeusz Borowski. |
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