Desperation : Surviving Hitler's Intention
Rychner-Reich, Lydia
ISBN 10: 0595445535 ISBN 13: 9780595445530
Editorial: iUniverse, Incorporated, 2008
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Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. N° de ref. del artículo 15290515-6
Sinopsis:
When Lydia Rychner-Reich took her first breath in 1927, no one could have predicted the horrors she would face in her life. Born just before the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany, she personally experienced the atrocities of the time and shares them in this memoir for the whole world.In Desperation, Lydia recounts the harrowing story of her life under Nazi rule. The torment began in 1938 when, at the age of eleven, the Nazis deported Lydia and her family to Poland, where they struggled daily to survive in a Jewish ghetto. In 1943, the Nazis tore Lydia away from her parents, sending her to detention centers and later to toil in a slave labor camp. It was at the end of 1944 that Lydia was truly tested. The Nazis forced her and the other prisoners on the Death March to Bergen-Belsen, where she spent the remainder of her imprisonment and where she met and befriended Anne Frank. While at Bergen-Belsen, Lydia wrote and hid notes to document the horrors she witnessed. This heart-wrenching account includes photos and official documentation from the Nazi era. Of her family, Lydia alone survived the concentration camps; her parents and sisters died there. She tells her tale so the world won't forget the innocent victims.
Reseña del editor: Rychner-Reich's coming-of-age memoir, set during the Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. This gripping account, which begins in the late '30s, depicts a bourgeois German family's descent from financial and social success to agonizing struggle for survival in Bergen-Belsen's camps. As the madness of Hitler's reign progressed, Rychner-Reich and her loving, hardworking family were driven to progressively more desperate measures. The family suffered constraints on their livelihoods and their movements, eventually abandoning their possessions in the flight to Poland. The author paints a clear picture of the Nazi regime's psychological warfare-the Jews and other targeted groups were constantly adapting their movements or dressing to conform to the latest arbitrary regulation, never knowing what to expect. However, the true horror wasn't the random enforcement of questionable rules, but the utter brutality of what Rychner-Reich terms the "Nazibeasts" or "Nazibrutes." The descriptions of shocking violence are painful merely to read, to say nothing of what the author witnessed firsthand. The psychological strain that survivors must withstand becomes more painfully evident as Rychner-Reich's story continues. Aside from two older brothers who emigrated to Argentina before the war, the author lost every member of her immediate family to the Nazis. The memoir is generally chronological, but occasionally jumps back and forth in time-this doesn't affect the story, instead serving almost to convey the confusion and miasma of the time. The only saving grace for readers is that Rychner-Reich survived to marry, have a family and join her voice with those of other survivors. Though 70 years have passed since the systematic, inhuman events in this compelling autobiography, it remains incredibly painful to read.-Kirkus Discoveries
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Título: Desperation : Surviving Hitler's Intention
Editorial: iUniverse, Incorporated
Año de publicación: 2008
Encuadernación: Encuadernación de tapa blanda
Condición: Very Good