Speak You Also by Paul Steinberg
In 1943 16 year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. He survived the death camp due in part to his admitted ruthlessness and not a little to luck. Some 50 years later, Steinberg describes his strategies for survival, the maneouvres and tactics he applied with cold competence. In an unsparing act of self-examination he traces his passage from artless adolescent to a ruthless creature determined to do anything to live, described and identified in Primo Levi's "If This Is A Man As "Henri"". Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Levi, who immortalised his fellow inmate as the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity. His story decribes this netherworld where the boundaries between life and death, innocence and guilt, dignity and shame are forever blurred.
Paul Steinberg was born in Berlin in 1926 and emigrated to France at the age of seven. Deported to Auschwitz in 1943, Steinberg returned after liberation to Paris, where he married and raised two daughters. He worked in business until his death in 1999, Speak You Also has been translated into eleven languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141000404 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141000406 |
| Title | Speak You Also |
| Author | Paul Steinberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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