Full name: The Boys: The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors

Author: Martin Gilbert Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780805044027 0805044027

They Call Themselves The Boys, though there are a few women among them. In 1945 they numbered 732 -- most in their teens, some as young as twelve. They came from Poland and Hungary, from the working poor and the well-to-do, but they shared one bond: they were the remnant, among the few Jews to survive the Holocaust. From 1939 to 1945 they underwent the deportations, camps, slave labor, and death marches, often witnessing the murder of entire families in circumstances of utter savagery. In 1945, starved and alone, they drifted into Prague, and it was there that they came together.In 1993 one of their members urged them to tell Sir Martin Gilbert their stories. For many, this was to break a lifelong silence; but with sympathy and understanding, Sir Martin drew them out. The Boys is their story. A re-creation of the nightmare years in their own voices, it tells as well of the spiritual legacy they carried with them, which helped them not only to survive but also to repair their lives and regenerate their souls. As such, it is a tale of hope overcoming horror and of the enduring triumph of the human spirit. Similar books: The Holocaust Chronicle by David Aretha Treblinka by Jean-François Steiner The Righteous by Martin Gilbert Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen Schindler's Legacy by Elinor J. Brecher Hidden Children by Jane Marks The Abandonment of the Jews by David S. Wyman Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith Perpetrators Victims Bystanders by Raul Hilberg Holocaust Journey by Martin Gilbert We Remember the Holocaust by David A. Adler The Survivor by Terrence Des Pres Final Solution by David Cesarani Black Earth by Timothy Snyder The Girls of Room 28 by Hannelore Brenner