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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer in Books

Jan 15, 2018  
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Irene Gut Opdyke | 1992
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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Wow!! I have been fascinated by WWII & the Holocaust for years. I'm glad I saw a friend of a friend recommend this book on Facebook. This is one of the most heroic women I've read about. Her story made me cry, gave me chills, made me wonder, but most of all it gave me hope. She put herself out there for others and lost a great deal in the process. But she chose to focus on all she gained. What an a,axing woman & a wonderful book.
  
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Stable Boy of Auschwitz [Audiobook] in Books

Mar 26, 2023  
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz [Audiobook]
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz [Audiobook]
Henry Oster, Dexter Ford | 2023 | History & Politics
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I have read a few books about the Holocaust during World War II but I have never listened to one before and, let me tell you, I found this audiobook just as powerful and heart-wrenching listening to William Hope's excellent narration.

Each book I have read about the Holocaust and World War II has provided another piece of history I was not fully aware of and The Stable Boy of Auschwitz is no different. It charts the remarkable life of Henry Oster before, during and after the war.

It is, as you can imagine, a very difficult book to read/listen to but it is also very powerful and inspirational and shows one boy's exceptional journey of survival from freedom, to the ghetto, to Auschwitz, on the forced marches, to Buchenwald and, finally, freedom again and is a story that should be shared as all survivors accounts should be.

I must thank Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for enabling me to listen to and share my thoughts of The Stable Boy of Auschwitz and for continuing to ensure that these stories continue to be published so they are not forgotten.
  
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Michael Barker recommended The Shop on Main Street (1965) in Movies (curated)

 
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
1965 | Drama, War
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"My first foreign film experience, at the age of eleven, is one of the finest films on the subject of the Holocaust. Without showing any scenes of extreme violence, it fully realizes, through its simple characters, the devastation of what happened and how it can happen if people don’t pay attention or fall prey to delusion. Here is where I also discovered great acting for the first time. Forty years later, Ida Kaminska and Josef Kroner’s performances remain amongst the best I have ever seen on the screen."

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Richard Serra recommended Poems of Paul Celan in Books (curated)

 
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan
Paul Celan | 2021
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"From the first lines of Celan’s “Todesfuge”: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown/ we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night/ we drink and we drink it Celan’s poems are terrifying and beautiful, many of them reflect his experience of the Holocaust. His parents died in a concentration camp, he was imprisoned in a labor camp. Language is Celan’s tool of combat and survival, and of the evocation of memory. I have always preferred poetry and prose to fiction. Poetry condenses."

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