Kinderen van de Holocaust Reeks
Deze serie duikt in de hartverscheurende verhalen van kinderen wier levens onherroepelijk werden gevormd door de Holocaust. Door middel van authentieke herinneringen en krachtige menselijke ervaringen onderzoekt het thema het behoud van waardigheid en hoop ondanks onvoorstelbaar lijden. De afzonderlijke delen vieren de veerkracht van de menselijke geest, de kracht van liefde en de moed om het kwaad te trotseren, zelfs in de donkerste uren. Het biedt een onvergetelijke kijk op de blijvende menselijkheid en het geloof in een betere toekomst.
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Darkness Casts No Shadow
- 173bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
During the Second World War, it was not unusual for “death trains” to cross Europe loaded with thousands of starving Jews. Having spent his teenage years in concentration camps, Arnost Lustig found himself on one of these transports in 1945, on the way to his own death. Along with a close friend, who was also a teenager, he made an incredibly daring escape. This is the story of that escape, and the weeks that the two boys spent in the dark forests of Germany trying to survive against hunger and cold, to avoid capture by the Germans, and to return to their native Prague. On the psychological plane, the book explores the subconscious minds of the two protagonists as they experience extreme fear, starvation, and physical exhaustion in their desperate flight toward freedom. The escape journey—undertaken against incredible odds—is described in such careful detail that the reader enters into the experience almost without realizing that he has slipped into a new kind of reality, and the frequent flashbacks to life in the concentration camps and ghettos give the entire book an unforgettable cinematic quality.
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Diamonds of the night
- 287bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
The nine stories in this book are based on Lustig's own experiences in ghettos and concentration camps during World War II.
