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The Boys
Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other Nazi death camps were places of death--not only of the body, but also of the spirit, for the German captors sought to rob their prisoners of their very humanity through routine torture and terrorism. Only a fraction of those who entered the camps survived to bear witness to that brutal regime. Martin Gilbert, the distinguished English histor...more
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As an historical document, this book is invaluable. It preserves the experiences and memories of ordinary people who were fated to survive the most infamous tragedy of our time. As literary history, this book is a miserable failure. Gilbert serves as an incapable, ineloquent mouthpiece for these survivors, and so their accounts, poorly constructed for all their poignance, run together in a confused mass of misery and awkward appeals to humanity. A chore to read, on several levels.
Toward the end the book got little slow, I didn't expect almost half of the book to be about life in England. But the stories of the war time experiences of these boys, told in their own words was, both sad and riveting. I really enjoyed this book.
I loved reading these stories, but I'm not sure if everyone will. I'm really into WWII and all that went with it, so it might be a little more interesting for me. Amazing stories though!!
I started this book around Holocaust Remembrance Day here in Israel, and it has left an indelible impression. There are descriptions of life before the war, harrowing personal testimonies of the horrors of the ghettos and the concentration camps, and descriptions of how this group of 732 survivors were brought to England to recover and rebuild their lives.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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Sir Martin John Gilbert is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history. Gilbert is a leading historian of the modern world, and is known as the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill.
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