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Cargando... The Plum Trees: A Novelpor Victoria Shorr
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a very difficult novel to read, as are so many about the Holocaust and Auschwitz. Consie, a contemporary young woman, is given a letter from 1945 that indicates her great uncle may have survived and escaped from Auschwitz. The story is framed by her attempts to research his survival. It mostly follows the lives of the uncle's three daughters and their struggles to survive in the camps. There is a great deal of factual history in this book, which makes it that much more horrifying. The betrayal by Rudolf Kastner, who could have saved half a million Hungarians from the camps but sold out to Eichmann, was the most disturbing revelation, although perhaps I should have known this history by now. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: A poignant tale about one woman's quest to recover her family's history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust. Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie's great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. This seems improbable to Consie. Did people escape from Auschwitz? Could her great-uncle have been among them? What happened to Hermann? Did anyone know? These questions are at the root of Consie's excavation of her family's history as she seeks, seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to discover what happened to Hermann. The Plum Trees follows Consie as she draws on oral testimonies, historical records, and more to construct a visceral account of the lives of Hermann, his wife, and their daughters from the happy days in prewar Czechoslovakia through their internment in Auschwitz and the end of World War II. The Plum Trees is a powerful, intimate reckoning with the past. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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