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Title: The Boys: The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors by Martin Gilbert ISBN: 0-8050-4403-5 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "The Boys"ÿ
Comment: I can't add much to the excellent published reviews. This is one of the most outstanding books I have read. Read it to learn what Jewish life was like before 1939 and to learn of the horrors of the camps and forced marches. Yet the book shows that there is hope as the "boys" remember the words of their fathers "In a place where there are no men, be a man". If you could get an older teen-ager to get through the beginning of this book (which is a little slow), they would get a tremendous amount from this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Like a punch in the stomach
Comment: In reading this book's 480 pages I must have said "Unbelieveable" at least 480 times. What a remarkable story.
It's sad that the passing of time and the passing of the individuals who experienced and survived such an ordeal tends to soften the images of those terrible times. I am grateful to "The Boys" who contributed to Martin Gilbert's requst to write their stories down. I promise them that in the same way that they commited their lives to keeping their families spiits alive, I will do the same for them. I will ensure that my children know of the past and learn from it.
This book, along with other Holocaust memorials and projects, will be read years from now and make future generations proud of their Jewish heritage. "The Boys" lives have not been in vain, they have lit a path of hope and fulfillment for all that follow
Rating: 5
Summary: Neighbors
Comment: Martin Gilbert is probably one of the most prodigious historians alive. This book required interviews with the 732 survivors it profiles ("Boys" includes both men and women) and those who knew them after the war. Some were as young as eight or nine when the war started. Many themes Gilbert covers are like those one can read in other personal Holocaust histories. But the experiences in each case are unique.
Martin provides two statistics I find particularly haunting. While 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust--including victims of pre-war pogroms, ghettos, concentration and death camps and death marches--only 100,000 survived the camps. And while Britain agreed to take in 1,000 Jewish "children" under the age of 16 after the war, only 732 could be found alive.
But for me, the most fascinating part of the book is the repeated confirmation that those who returned to their homes after the war found the same kind of murderous hatred among their former neighbors as Jan Tomasz Gross describes in Neighbors.
In other words, Jedwabne was not unique. Gross has himself said as much and plans to write more on the subject. But Gilbert also confirms that murders of Jews by locals happened during the war all over Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, and to a lesser extent, in Hungary. It also happened after the war all over Europe--especially in the East. Returning Jews found neighbors who wished them dead, and in thousands of cases killed them. The "boys", obviously, survived. But many lost brothers, parents, friends, after the war, in Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere. Sir Martin Gilbert gives us the living proof. Alyssa A. Lappen
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Title: The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert ISBN: 0805003487 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas ISBN: 059084475X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson ISBN: 0689823959 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert ISBN: 0805062602 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel ISBN: 0380732858 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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