| Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror Contributor(s): Birenbaum, Halina (Author) |
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ISBN: 156324747X ISBN-13: 9781563247477 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 95-49342 |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.03" W x 8.92" (0.80 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Ethnic Orientation - German - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. Since the old, the weak, and children were summarily executed by the Nazis in these camps, Mrs Birenbaum's survival and coming of age is all the more remarkable. Her story is told with simplicity and clarity and the new edition contains revisions made by the author to the original English translation, and is expanded with a new epilogue and postscripts that bring the story up to date and complete the circle of Mrs Birenbaum's experiences. |