Bartoszewski, Wadysawīartoszewski (history, Warwick Univ.) provides a detailed account of the controversial Carmelite convent that appeared suddenly at the very gates of Auschwitz in 1984. Elie WieselĪuthor: Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw T. contains eloquent and superb articles on a variety of subjects, both topical and timeless.Rabbi Avigdor has a personal way of combining erudition with simplicity. He brings on depth and wisdom to everything he writes. Rabbi Avigdor is an interesting man, a religious man and a survivor of five years of concentration camps.
They are told to us by a religious Jew, who despite tortures and enslavement has not lost his faith, but emerged from near death at liberation to rise again to a renewed and vigorous new life in America. The description of the experiences during the thousand and one nights of the Holocaust are in vivid narrative. In each essay he manages to inform and celebrate the exquisite joys of each and every holiday. Read his essays on Yom Kippur or Tisha B'av and you'll suddenly understand these holidays like never before. In this engaging collection of articles Rabbi Avigdor looks in detail at Jewish holidays and life during and after the Holocaust. Inspiring thoughts about Jewish Festivals and life during and after the Holocaust from a Rabbi, columnist and Holocaust survivor. Lib., Burlington, Vt.Ĭopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. A well-written albeit somewhat sensationalistic study that many public libraries will wish to acquire. For it is only then that the aging and impenitent Nazi achieves those human qualities that make him seem plausible and understandable. The Auschwitz chapters are predictably shocking and melodramatic it is only when Astor focuses on Mengele's decades of evasion in South America that the story becomes taut and meaningful. As to the ``Angel of Death's'' motives and inner psyche, the author has few thoughtful answers. Astor spent several years preparing this loosely documented study. Now that Mengele's remains have been exhumed and identified, we can expect a number of popular biographies. The Last Nazi: The Life and Times of Joseph MengeleĬategory: Biographies & Memoirs : General
The Last Nazi: The Life and Times of Joseph Mengele