| Himmler's Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank Contributor(s): Lewis, Mark (Author), Frank, Jacob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815606060 ISBN-13: 9780815606062 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2000 Annotation: Frank was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1913. During World War II he survived four Nazi concentration camps, including Dachau and the little known Lipowa in Lublin. Being a tailor, he was tapped to head a 450-tailor operation, which put him in touch with such notorious officers as Himmler, Eichmann, Goth, and Globocnik. He testified in war crimes trials about the atrocities and massacres. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Holocaust - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 99040004 |
| Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.39" W x 9.33" (1.34 lbs) 340 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The only survivor of his sixty-four-member family, Frank provides the only firsthand account in English of Lublin and the destruction of its Jewish quarter. Amid the horrors and everyday minutia of life under the Nazis, he reflects on the role of faith, the will to live, and the temptation of suicide. Frank also examines survivor guilt, Jewish identity, the psychology of victims and perpetrators, and the role of memory. |