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The Straits of Hell: The Chronicle of a Salonikan Jew in the Nazi Extermination Camps Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee

Door Moshe Ha-Elion

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#412861-XX5
Titel
The Straits of Hell: The Chronicle of a Salonikan Jew in the Nazi Extermination Camps Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee
Auteur
Ha-Elion, Moshe
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Maanheim/Möhnesee : Bibliopolis
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
3933925703
ISBN13
9783933925701
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards, some illustrations in b/w, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
"The Jerusalem of the Balkans is today a city of ghosts. Saloniki or Salonika, as Thessaloniki was known its Jewish community, today barely numbers a thousand Jews whereas from 1500 to World War I the Jews constituted the majority of its inhabitants. Moshe Ha-Elyon and his extended family were part of the deportation from Salonika of some 45,000 Jews to Auschwitz where all but a handful were gassed, beaten, or starved to death during the spring of 1943 to the end of the war. This memoir differs from the many memoirs of Greek Jews. Moshe Ha- Elyon portrays the religious and cultural life of his ancestral community as well as the spiritual and mystical research of his father who predicted, prior to his death at the onset of the war, both the persecution of the Jews and the subsequent ri... (Lees verder)se of a Jewish state in its aftermath. It is the moving story of a teenager who suffered in extremis yet lived to transmit to his family in Israel the legacy of a vanished era. A most informative and worthwhile insight into the inner world of Greek Jewry before and during its destruction during World War II"--
Pagina's
120
Conditie
Goed — Wrinkle front cover.
Prijs
€ 35,00

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