Between Two Streams by Abel J Herzberg

Between Two Streams by Abel J Herzberg

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At the height of the Holocaust it was Nazi policy to preserve groups of "privileged" Jews - this "privilege" amounting to being kept alive in a camp rather than gassed. One such internee was Abel Herzberg, whose diary chronicles daily existence in dehumanizing conditions at Bergen-Belsen.

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Between Two Streams by Abel J Herzberg

At the height of the Holocaust it was Nazi policy to preserve small groups of "privileged" Jews for possible use in exchanges with Allied-held German civilians. Held in the special "Sternlager" at Bergen-Belsen their "privilege" amounted to being kept alive rather than gassed - although 70 per cent of the internees perished before the camp's liberation, victims of disease, starvation, beatings or sheer despair. One such privileged internee - Abel Herzberg, a Dutch lawyer and writer - managed in the hell of Bergen-Belsen to keep a diary which chronicles the reality of daily existence in the camp, with its grotesquely dehumanizing conditions and the magnanimity and pettiness which they engendered. He describes the relations between inmates and the civic code of the internees.
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ISBN 13 9781860641213
ISBN 10 1860641210
Title Between Two Streams
Author Abel J Herzberg
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1997-12-31
Number of pages 232
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