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Life Reclaimed: Rural Transylvania, Nazi Camps, and the American Dream
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(Buch) |
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Veröffentlichung: |
März 2013
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Genre: |
Soziologie |
ISBN: |
9781475980271 |
EAN-Code:
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9781475980271 |
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iUniverse |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 10 mm |
Gewicht: |
273 gr |
Seiten: |
182 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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Inhalt: |
In April of 1944, during the last year of World War II and two months before the D-day landings at Normandy, Paul N. Frenkel was a fourteen-year-old living happily with his family in the rural Transylvanian town of Hadad, Hungary. Suddenly, without explanation or justification, the family was rounded up with other Hungarian Jews, confined in a factory yard, and then herded into cattle cars and shipped off to Auschwitz.
In Life Reclaimed, Frenkel narrates the story of his life-his prewar idyllic childhood in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, his survival in four Nazi camps as a young teenager, the loss of his parents and most of his relatives in Nazi hell, his daring escape from the death march out of Berga-Elster Camp, and his ultimate success as an entrepreneurial business executive and devoted family man in America.
A story of endurance, courage, and hope, Life Reclaimed represents Frenkel's determined ongoing efforts to come to grips with his Word War II experience-why his family and the other Hungarian Jews failed to realize their dire peril from the Nazis; why their Transylvanian neighbors and friends actively collaborated with the Nazis or passively abandoned their Jewish colleagues to arrest, enslavement, and death; and why this dark past continues to haunt his life and burden his thoughts. |
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