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From time to time one comes across a book of true tales that not only has the power to be painfully moving, but also terribly informing about what it was like to survive the Holocaust. Bernard Gotfryd, in his true tales, has given us such a book.
Thirty autobiographical stories whose banal details and well-placed silences haunt long after the book is finished.
Written with integrity and honesty, Anton helps us to recognize human strength and precariousness, and the complexity of human existence. The book rouses our responsibility and makes us face people and history through the specific voices Gotfryd lets us hear, and the specific faces and places he lets us see.
[A] fine collection of 30 true stories, some nostalgic, others heartbreaking, all of them moving.
Astonishing and important... quite marvelous... these stories are real pearls.
Bernard Gotfryd... shows himself to be an exemplary man, mild and strong, never desperate, in constant search for goodness even in the most extreme situations. We are grateful to him for this book because it makes us think.
An important contribution to the literature of memory.
The book gave me a bit of hope about the worst things in us, and that is an achievement.
Poignant and painful reading... so immediate that it is as if it... is happening today.
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Book Details
Publication Date
Status
Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
248
ISBN
9780801863103
Illustration Description
21 b&w photos
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Theft of a Table
Chapter 2. The Circus Comes to Town
Chapter 3. The Stutterer
Chapter 4. The Music Teacher
Chapter 5. The Wedding Picture
Chapter 6. The Violin
Chapter 6. My Debut
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Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Theft of a Table
Chapter 2. The Circus Comes to Town
Chapter 3. The Stutterer
Chapter 4. The Music Teacher
Chapter 5. The Wedding Picture
Chapter 6. The Violin
Chapter 6. My Debut
Chapter 7. The Fountain Pen
Chapter 8. Mr. G.
Chapter 9. Masha
Chapter 10. A Chicken for the Holidays
Chapter 11. Alexandra
Chapter 12. Kurt
Chapter 13. Helmut Reiner
Chapter 14. The Last Morning
Chapter 15. Anton the Dove Fancier
Chapter 16. On Guilt
Chapter 17. Three Eggs
Chapter 18. The Execution
Chapter 19. My Brother's Friend
Chapter 20. Hans Bürger, #15252
Chapter 21. The Last Camp
Chapter 22. An Encounter in Linz
Chapter 23. Reunions
Chapter 24. Inge
Chapter 25. America at Last
Chapter 26. Old Friends
Chapter 27. Walking in the Footsteps of My Childhood
Chapter 28. On a Rainy Night
Chapter 29. On Memory
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