pick4.25⭐️ Really liked the book. While the book read a bit simplistic, it was very well written. The story flowed well and I enjoyed the story as well. #2025 #biographicalfiction #historicalfiction #fiction #wwii #holocaust #bookclub
pickNot only recounting an experience in Monowitz-Buna, a work camp in the Auschwitz complex, but an examination of the dehumanization that we are capable of...both from the peretrator and the victim.
“In every part of the world, wherever you begin by denying the fundamental liberties of mankind, and equality among people, you move towards the concentration-camp system, and it is a road on which it is difficult to halt.“ - Primo Levi
pickIt‘s surprising to me this was only recently translated to English given what an important addition it is to Holocaust history and memoirs. Debreczeni not only provides more insight into the concentration camps, he sheds light on the hierarchical structure that was present there. A difficult read but one I am glad I did as I continue to educate myself on the past.
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This is my current read. My husband asked me if it‘s not too depressing to read. I replied that it‘s deeply sad, but what depresses me now is the current situation in my country (USA). I‘m reading this book as the history it is.
On #Holocaust Remembrance Day as well as the week that Lunar New Year begins, I am starting this very important book by Iris Chang which details the massacre of Nanking by Japanese forces during #WWII. Much less well-known than the genocide in Europe, but no less horrifying.
