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S'està carregant… Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem (edició 2003)de Solly Ganor
Informació de l'obraLight One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem de Solly Ganor
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  OshoOsho | Mar 30, 2013 |   My typical Holocaust memoir is Anne Frank. Well clearly now that is just a child's version compared to this. I'm glad I read it. It was difficult to read but should be read by everyone. The writing is very good and not only the descriptions of people and events but also his descriptions of the physical surroundings are very heartfelt. It is rare to find the two combined so well. sjclance | Nov 11, 2010 |  ) luvztoread | Jun 29, 2006 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Forty-seven years after he was found half-dead in the snow, following a death march from Dachau, Solly Ganor again came face to face with his rescuer Clarence Matsumura at a reunion of Holocaust survivors and their American liberators. That meeting proved a catharsis, enabling Ganor to confront for the first time the catalogue of horrors he experienced during the Second World War. Beginning in prewar Lithuania, Light One Candle tells of the ominous changes that took place once Hitler came to power in 1933, of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul who wrote thousands of exit visas for Jews fleeing the Nazi onslaught, of the brutal conditions in the Kaunas ghetto where Ganor spent most of the war, and of Stutthoff and Dachau, the concentration camps he was shuttled to and from in the last, desperate days of the war. Unflinching in its depiction of evil but uplifting in its story of the survival of the human spirit, Light One Candle is a gripping memoir that waited fifty years to be told. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Ganor's Holocaust narrative takes place primarily in villages and ghettos, providing a useful contrast to memoirs that primarily describe life in the camps. Ganor has some access to the outside world and at many points is able to comment on the relations between the Jewish captives and the communities within or near which their confinement takes place. Though most of the non-Jewish citizens in his account are not sympathetic, there are more than in many Holocaust narratives. Ganor frames his otherwise chronological and straightforward story with two meetings with the U.S. Nisei (2nd generation Japanese) soldier who rescued him. He also punctuates his own story with this soldier's. It's the first book I've read by a Jewish Holocaust survivor that names the existence of U.S. internment camps for citizens of Japanese ancestry or origin. I appreciated reading a Jewish narrative that also accounted for a Japanese-American soldier's, though from a purely literary perspective it wasn't as successful as it might have been.
Recently I've read a number of accounts of genocide in Asia, Africa, South America, and Oceania. In conjunction with Ganor, these remind me that we are all ready to dehumanize and kill each other with little provocation; the unique horrors of the Nazi approach are its scale and mechanized, sanitized nature.
Read with Gilbert Tuhabonye's [b:This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness|539051|This Voice in My Heart A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness|Gilbert Tuhabonye|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175631883s/539051.jpg|526439] to compare an African genocide to the European, and with Lauren Kessler's excellent [b:Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family|1439350|Stubborn Twig Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family|Lauren Kessler|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183601119s/1439350.jpg|1429941] to learn more about internment and its effects on one Japanese-American family.
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