| A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz: A Memoir Contributor(s): Rosenberg, Göran (Author), Death, Sarah (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590518403 ISBN-13: 9781590518403 Publisher: Other Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Holocaust |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.84 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Chronological Period - 1940's - Topical - Family - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This shattering memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the prestigious August Prize On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. In this intelligent and deeply moving book, G ran Rosenberg returns to his own childhood to tell the story of his father: walking at his side, holding his hand, trying to get close to him. It is also the story of the chasm between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress, and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past. |