Glimpses: Through Holocaust and Liberation - Softcover

Bender, Benjamin

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9781556432088: Glimpses: Through Holocaust and Liberation

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ISBN 10: 1556432089 ISBN 13: 9781556432088

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 1995

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Holocaust survivor Bender was 11 years old when the German army invaded his native Poland. He lived in Czestochowa, a backward town steeped in medieval ideas and anti-Semitic attitudes--and thoroughly unprepared for the mechanized terror of the Nazis. When the SS arrived, Bender, his family, and the town's other Jews were soon segregated into a ghetto. Later, Bender and his brother were spared from the death camps because they could provide useful labor for Hitler's war machine. Forced to leave their parents behind, they moved from factory to factory, only to end up at Buchenwald.

Interspersed throughout are chapters about Bender's future wife, Sara, her struggle against Nazi occupation, and how she and Bender later met in an Israeli kibbutz. Glimpses is an extremely readable narrative that's both horrifying and uplifting.

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About the Author:

The film Liberators featured the author's return to Buchenwlad and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. It was also honored with the IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award, and has been broadcast nationally on PBS, in Australia, and throughout Europe.

Review:

"Written with passion and urgency...a dramatic life story. There is much anguish in this book, much despair, but also a powerful appeal for maintaining faith in Jewish memory and humanity."
-Elie Weisel, Nobel Laureate, author of Night

"An exceptionally powerful and poignant memoir...an invaluable contribution to the literature of the Holocaust. Few works convey such emotional impact."
-William Styron, author

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