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Necropolis
Contributor(s): Pahor, Boris (Author), Biggins, Michael (Translator)
ISBN: 1564786110     ISBN-13: 9781564786111
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2010013485
Series: Slovenian Literature
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.4" (0.50 lbs) 182 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Topical - Holocaust
 
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Publisher Description:
Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles, Germans. Twenty years later, when he visits a camp in the Vosges Mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument, images of his experiences come back to him: corpses being carried to the ovens; emaciated prisoners in wooden clogs and ragged, zebra-striped uniforms, struggling up the steps of a quarry or standing at roll call in the cold rain; the infirmary, reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor s stirring account of his attempts to provide medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps and of his coming to terms with the ineradicable guilt he feels, having survived when millions did not.