Review by Booklist Review
This is a powerful and compelling book from start to finish. After an enlightening prologue, the authors--in part one, entitled "Voices of Experience"--present Ida Fink's autobiographical short story, "A Scrap of Time." Fink, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust in hiding, recalls "the ruins of memory" in her book of stories from which this one was drawn. In the following 400 pages, there's much more; for example, there's a letter written from Westerbork, a Dutch deportation assembly depot for Jews headed for Nazi death camps, by writer Etty Hillesum, who died at Auschwitz. From Auschwitz survivor Sara Nomberg-Przytyk comes her "true tale," "The Camp Blanket." These are just three of the different voices that must continue to be heard. There is much to learn from this book--about the Holocaust itself, and about the incredible range of human behavior. (Reviewed Feb 15, 1993)1557785031George Cohen
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Review by Booklist Review
