Description
Product ID: | 9781529105568 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IT |
Title: | The Children's Block |
Subtitle: | Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor |
Authors: | Author: Otto B Kraus |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Second World War fiction, Second World War fiction, Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Alex is keeping a diary…Originally published as THE PAINTED WALL, Otto Kraus’s autobiographical novel, tells the true story of 500 Jewish children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944. ''We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We grow intimate not only in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of one womb, we would certainly die together.'' |
Imprint Name: | Ebury Press |
Publisher Name: | Ebury Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-10-17 |