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Chargement... Triumph of Hope : From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israelpar Ruth Elias
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Ruth Elias A better-than-average Holocaust memoir. Ruth Elias spent some time in Theresienstadt, married there, and arrived in Auschwitz pregnant. Most pregnant women are gassed immediately, but they missed her condition, and she became adept at hiding it. When they did find out, she was very close to giving birth. The infamous Mengele decided to keep Ruth around to experiment how long a newborn baby will live without being fed. So he bound Ruth's breasts up so she couldn't nurse the child, and left them together for seven terrible days and nights. Seven days, seven nights that she watched her firstborn disintegrate and die. Wailing loudly the first few days, then its cries became weaker, like those of a kitten, then it became too weak even to cry. On the seventh day, a compassionate Jewish doctor risked her life to steal some morphine. She gave it to Ruth, who injected it into the baby and killed it painlessly. I defy any reader to get through those few pages without getting tears in their eyes. That Ruth survived all that, and more, is a testimony to just how resilient and adaptable we humans are. It was a good book, very detailed, telling everything matter-of-fact and without self-pity. Ruth was the only survivor in her immediate family. Her husband survived, but she split with him and married another survivor who lost his wife and little daughter in Auschwitz. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Triumph of Hope From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel Now available in English, here is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, where she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever imposed upon any woman, upon any human being . so that both she and her newborn infant should not die in a Nazi ""medical"" experiment personally conducted by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. And just as vividly, Ruth Elias recounts the aftermath of her imprisonment, and the difficult path to a new life in a new land: Israel, where new challenges, new obstacles awaited. ""One of the most powerful memoirs provided to us by a survivor."" --Indiana Jewish Post and Opinion ""Well-written . not only provides a remarkably honest picture of the unspeakable reality of living in ghettos and slave-labor and death camps, but also what it meant to be Jewish in Europe. in the 1920s and 1930s.. This is one of the best Holocaust memoirs I have read."" --Washington Jewish Week ""The understated tone of this memoir adds to the author's powerful re-creation of her life as a young Czechoslovak Jewish woman during the Holocaust."" --Publishers Weekly Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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