| Bialystok to Birkenau: The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielnicki Contributor(s): Mielnicki, Michel (Author), Munro, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0921870779 ISBN-13: 9780921870777 Publisher: Ronsdale Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2000 Annotation: This profoundly honest Holocaust memoir describes the transformation of everyday anti-semitism into the Holocaust nightmare. Central to the story are the years Mielnicki spent in the camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Mittelbau-Dora and Belsen. Mielnicki's account is a harrowing yet powerfully redeeming human drama. Includes over 30 black and white photos and maps. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Holocaust - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00456841 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.02" W x 9.04" (0.89 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The testimony of survivors is the ultimate refutation of claims that the Holocaust did not occur. In this profoundly honest Holocaust memoir, Michel Mielnicki takes us from the pleasures and charms of pre-war Polish Jewry (now entirely lost) into some of the darkest places of the twentieth century. One of the few survivors of Birkenau -- not a concentration camp but an actual death camp -- Mielnicki tells his story with great courage and attention to truthful detail. In his home town of Wasilkow, Poland, he describes how pogroms, which began as small acts of anti-Semitism, led to mass murders and expulsions. Poland from September 1939 to June 1941. Mielnicki's account of life in the camps of Birkenau, Buna, Mittelbau-Dora and Belsen is at times harrowing, but the personal qualities that helped him to survive when all human dignity had apparently been erased creates a powerfully redeeming human drama. |