Nightmares - Memoirs of the Years of Horror Under Nazi Rule in Europe, 1939-1945

A memoir by an award-winning author in its first English translation. When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son, and an aspiring poet. For the next seven years he witnessed the Holocaust as it destroyed his family, his country, and his culture. In this astonishing story of suffering and survival, he gives his own personal account of the Warsaw ghetto, the death chambers at Auschwitz, the transport trains, the slave labor camps of Dachau, and the liberation. And from the perspective of the renowned journalist he later became, he also describes how the Holocaust was carried out, not only at the level of governments and their armies, but at the level of the individuals who took its orders. Few people survived the Holocaust from such close range or for so long, and few remembered it with the eye of a practiced journalist.

About the author

Konrad Charmatz, a Yiddish newspaper editor after the war, was awarded the 1985 literary prize of the World Federation of Jewish Partisans and Holocaust Survivors for this book.

Summary

When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son and an aspiring poet. For the next seven years he witnesses the Holocaust as it destroyed his family, country and culture. This is his memoir of those years.

Product details

• Authors: Konrad Charmatz
• Assisted by: Matthew Kudelka (Editor), Miriam Beckerman (Translation), Miriam Dashkin Beckerman (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9780815607069
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0706-9
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Religion, Theology, and the Ho; Religion, Theology and the Holocaust; Religion, Theology, and the Ho; Religion, Theology and the Hol
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies