Survival In Auschwitz
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I read this book while on a retreat at Auschwitz in 1996. I read it in 1 sitting; it is so compelling. Sending it to a fellow BCer to fulfill one of her holiday wishes.
Thank you very much for this wishlist book.
Your kindness is sincerely appreciated.
Your kindness is sincerely appreciated.
My 17 year old daughter read this book first.
She could not put it down and said it is the best book that she has ever read.
I, on the other hand, took months to read it. I would read a chapter then lay it aside and read something else for a while. For some reason this book just could not hold my attention. I finally finished it this morning and will find a new home for it soon.
She could not put it down and said it is the best book that she has ever read.
I, on the other hand, took months to read it. I would read a chapter then lay it aside and read something else for a while. For some reason this book just could not hold my attention. I finally finished it this morning and will find a new home for it soon.
Journal Entry 4 by book_drunkard at 1001 Library Member, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (6/15/2011 UTC) at 1001 Library Member, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Donation to 1001-Library.
Happy travels little book.
Happy travels little book.
Arrived safely today.
“It was my good fortune,” writes Primo Levi in the preface to If This Is a Man, “to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944.” It is a stark opening to this classic account of Levi’s ten months in the horrific Nazi death camp, one that strikes the distinctive note of his writing on the Holocaust. Beginning with his capture by the Fascist militia in December 1943, the chapters of If This Is a Man were written, Levi explains, “in order of urgency.” He is acknowledging that this is an attempt both the explain to his readers what life was like in Auschwitz, and to work his own way through the experience of life-in-death that emerges as the reality of the Lager (“The life of Ka-Be is a life of limbo”).
What is a man in Auschwitz? What does an atrocity such as Auschwitz do to the idea of humanity? Levi delivers what has been described as a prose poem on this “exceptional human state” — thousands of individuals, enclosed together within wire, yet “ferociously alone.” In If This Is a Man, Levi introduces a number of important themes and categories that would return throughout his writing, notably those of The Drowned and the Saved. He reveals the pitiless division that holds sway in the world of the camp: the status of the “Organisator,” the “Kombinator,” and the “Prominent,” and the lowly “musselman.”
There is no third way — that is, no ordinary life — and so Levi finds the image of evil that this book struggles to convey: “an emaciated man — on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen.” No thought, and no story: Auschwitz was an attack on the life of the mind against which Levi writes in this book, an attack that generates what he describes as the elemental need to tell the “unlistened-to story.” — Vicky Lebeau in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
“It was my good fortune,” writes Primo Levi in the preface to If This Is a Man, “to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944.” It is a stark opening to this classic account of Levi’s ten months in the horrific Nazi death camp, one that strikes the distinctive note of his writing on the Holocaust. Beginning with his capture by the Fascist militia in December 1943, the chapters of If This Is a Man were written, Levi explains, “in order of urgency.” He is acknowledging that this is an attempt both the explain to his readers what life was like in Auschwitz, and to work his own way through the experience of life-in-death that emerges as the reality of the Lager (“The life of Ka-Be is a life of limbo”).
What is a man in Auschwitz? What does an atrocity such as Auschwitz do to the idea of humanity? Levi delivers what has been described as a prose poem on this “exceptional human state” — thousands of individuals, enclosed together within wire, yet “ferociously alone.” In If This Is a Man, Levi introduces a number of important themes and categories that would return throughout his writing, notably those of The Drowned and the Saved. He reveals the pitiless division that holds sway in the world of the camp: the status of the “Organisator,” the “Kombinator,” and the “Prominent,” and the lowly “musselman.”
There is no third way — that is, no ordinary life — and so Levi finds the image of evil that this book struggles to convey: “an emaciated man — on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen.” No thought, and no story: Auschwitz was an attack on the life of the mind against which Levi writes in this book, an attack that generates what he describes as the elemental need to tell the “unlistened-to story.” — Vicky Lebeau in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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I look forward to the read.
I look forward to the read.
Oppem, the Bookcrosser who previously journalled this book, passed away on June 23, 2012. I had the privilege of meeting her dear family and "catching" her large collection of registered books. I will be releasing this one soon.
Journal Entry 12 by 
elizardbreath
at A Bookcrosser in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, July 9, 2012
elizardbreath at A Bookcrosser in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, July 9, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (7/9/2012 UTC) at A Bookcrosser in A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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To the finder of this book:
This book is gift, no strings attached, from me to you. You may keep it forever, pass it along to a friend, or release it into the wild to be found by someone else.
If you are new to BookCrossing, welcome! Enjoy the site, the book, and the BookCrossing community. I hope you'll join us...it's free! If you do, please consider using me, elizardbreath, as your referring member. You can even remain anonymous if you wish!
I hope you'll make a brief journal entry so all the previous and future readers can track this book's journey.
Thanks, and Happy BookCrossing! :)
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If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the library bookshelf.
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