My Stripes Were Earned in Hell : a French Resistance Fighter's Memoir of Survival in a Nazi Prison Camp.
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| Author / Creator: | Renouard, Jean-Pierre. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121364 |
| Summary: | This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germany's Nazi prison camps. In this spare, compelling narrative of a year during which he and the world he knew descended into hell, he recounts his battle to survive--physically, emotionally, and morally. In May 1944, just a month before D-Day, Renouard, then a teenaged French underground fighter, was captured by the Gestapo, crammed into a cattle wagon with a hundred others, and sent to Neuengamme in Germany. After two months, he was transferred to the Misburg subcamp. In both camps he suffered, as did all his fellow inmates, from insufficient food and shelter and no medicine while being forced to do long hours of hard labor. Renouard vividly depicts the labor camps' brutal daily life and social hierarchies, his personal struggles, the friendships gained and lost, and, of course, his incredible and primary task of survival. When he was finally transferred to the infamous Bergen-Belsen death camp, a typhus epidemic had already spread, and he helplessly watched his last surviving comrades die. Even after Allied troops liberated the camp on April 15, 1945, he had to wait painful months before he could return to France. Written in a deliberately neutral tone, without hatred or even resentment, Renouard's memoir is a memorial to those murdered and a powerful testimony to the human capacity to commit--and to survive--mass atrocity. <br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781442214019 1442214015 1283362309 9781283362306 1442214007 9781442214002 9781442213999 |