Author:
Meyer, Alwin, 1950- author.
Edition Statement:English edition.
ImprintCambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2022]
Imprint2022
Descriptionxix, 530 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Note:"Originally published in German as Vergiss deinen Namen nicht. Die Kinder von Auschwitz... Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2015."--Title page verso.
Note:Life Before -- 'That's When My Childhood Ended' -- 'The Hunt for Jews Began' -- Gateway to Death -- 'As If in a Coffin' -- Oswiecim ; Oshpitzin ; Auschwitz -- Children of Many Languages -- Small Children, Mothers and Grandmothers -- 'Di 600 Inglekh' and Other Manuscripts Found in Auschwitz -- Births in Auschwitz -- 'Twins! Where Are the Twins?' -- 'To Be Free at Last!' -- Transports, Death Marches and Other Camps -- Dying? What's That? -- Alive Again! -- Who Am I? -- '... The Other Train Is Always There'.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 children and juveniles were deported to Auschwitz, only 750 were liberated in the death camp at the end of January 1945. Most of them were under 15 years of age. Alwin Meyer's masterwork is the culmination of decades of research and interviews with the children and their descendants, sensitively reconstructing their stories before, during and after Auschwitz. This remarkable book tells the stories of the most vulnerable victims of the Nazis' systematic attempt to extinguish innocent lives, and rescues their voices from historical oblivion. It is a unique testimony to the horrific suffering endured by millions in humanity's darkest hour.
