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O Bloco das Crianças

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Um romance autobiográfico sobre o bloco das crianças no campo de Auschwitz-Birkenau, da autoria de um sobrevivente do holocausto. Dormíamos num beliche para quatro pessoas mas, em alturas de sobrelotação, éramos sete e por vezes oito de cada vez.

Havia tão pouco espaço que, quando um de nós precisava de aliviar a pressão no corpo, tínhamos todos de nos virar num emaranhado de pernas, peitos e barrigas ocas como se fôssemos uma criatura com vários membros, um deus hindu ou uma centopeia. Desenvolvemos uma relação de intimidade, não só física, mas também mental porque sabíamos que, embora não tivéssemos saído todos do mesmo útero, iríamos certamente morrer juntos.

Alex Ehren é um poeta, prisioneiro e professor no bloco 31 de Auschwitz-Birkenau, o bloco das crianças. Ele passa os dias a esforçar-se por sobreviver enquanto dá aulas ilegalmente às crianças do seu grupo, tentando protegê-las o melhor que pode dos horrores inconcebíveis do campo. Mas tentar ensinar as crianças não é a única atividade ilegal em que Alex está envolvido.

Ele escreve um diário... o romance autobiográfico de Otto Kraus, um sobrevivente do holocausto, foi originalmente publicado com o título The Painted Wall. Narra a história verídica de várias centenas de crianças judias que viveram no campo de Auschwitz-Birkenau entre 1943 e 1944.

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First published January 1, 1993

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Otto B. Kraus

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Otto B. Kraus was born 1st September 1921 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He and his family were deported in May 1942 to Ghetto Terezin and from there to Auschwitz where Otto became one of the children’s counsellors on the Kinderblock. Their camp was liquidated after six months. The able-bodied inmates were selected by the notorious Dr Mengele and sent to forced labour in Germany, the rest – more than 7000 people including mothers with young children, the weak and the elderly – were killed in the gas chambers. Otto was among the 1000 men sent to the concentration camp Schwarzheide-Sachsenhausen in Germany. After the war, Otto returned to Prague where he learned that neither his parents, nor his brother had survived. He enrolled at the university to study Literature, Philosophy, English and Spanish. He received a modest grant and started to rebuild his life. He met Dita by chance and remembered her as one of the youths on the Kinderblock in Auschwitz and they became friends. They were married in 1947 and in 1949 they emigrated to Israel where they lived at first in a kibbutz and later moved to the Youth Village Hadassim where Otto taught English. Dita and Otto raised two sons and a daughter. Otto died on the 5th October 2000, at home, surrounded by his family.

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