Escaping Auschwitz - A Culture of Forgetting

Informationen zum Autor Ruth Linn is Dean of the Faculty of Education at Haifa University, Israel. She is the author of Not Shooting and Not Crying , Conscience at War , and Mature Unwed Mothers . Klappentext In 1944 a Slovakian Jew named Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz and wrote a document about the death camp activities. His words never reached the half million Hungarian Jews who were herded there. The story of that suppression is told here. Zusammenfassung On 7 April 1944 a Slovakian Jew! Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg)! and a fellow prisoner! Alfred Wetzler! succeeded in escaping from Auschwitz-Birkenau. As block registrars both men had been allowed relative (though always risky) freedom of...

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Linn
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2004
• EAN: 9780801441301
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4130-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 217 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Psychoanalysis and Social Theo; Psychoanalysis and Social Theory; Psychoanalysis and Social Theo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)