Boy 30529 (inbunden, eng)

A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and uplifting humor.

In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identityBorn into a respectable Czech family, Felix’s early years were idyllic. But when Nazi persecution threatened in 1938, his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late—and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers.

Thus begins a harrowing tale of survival, horror, and determinationOver the following years, Felix survived 5 concentration camps, including Terezín, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. Losing both his brother and mother in the camps, Felix was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at the age of 17 with his father in Britain, where they built a new life together.

An extraordinary memoir, as well as a meditation on the nature of memoryIt helps us understand why the Holocaust remains a singular presence at the heart of historical debate.

Format	Inbunden
Omfång	192 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Verso Books
Utgivningsdatum	2013-04-09
ISBN	9781781680780