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Inherit the Truth 1939-1945: The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (Paperback, 1996)
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This autobiography relates the author's experiences, as well as those of her sister Renate, as a prisoner at both Auschwitz and Belsen. At Auschwitz, Anita escaped death through her talents as a cellist when she was co-opted onto the camp orchestra.
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This autobiography relates the author's experiences, as well as those of her sister Renate, as a prisoner at both Auschwitz and Belsen. It tells how their lives were saved by courage, ingenuity, and several improbable strokes of luck. At Auschwitz, Anita escaped death through her talents as a cellist when she was co-opted onto the camp orchestra. The book contains a number of documents, most of them now lodged in the archives of the Imperial War Museum in London. There is a sequence of letters to her sister Marianne in England, from just before the War to 1942, when her parents were deported and liquidated. The predicament of Anita and Renate inside the concentration camps is conveyed, and the text shows how the sisters' capture while fleeing to Paris turned out to be a stroke of luck - they were sent to prison and thus spared the much worse horrors of Auschwitz for a crucial year in the middle of the War. This text featured in BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme on August 25, 1996, and in addition a BBC TV film was screened in October 1996.Product Identifiers
PublisherGiles DE LA Mare Publishers
ISBN-139781900357012
eBay Product ID (ePID)90919065
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Book TitleInherit the Truth 1939-1945: the Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen
AuthorAnita Lasker-Wallfisch
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width156mm
Item Weight338g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAnita Lasker-Wallfisch
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 21 Feb, 2025
A stark tale or resistance and survival.
I have heard Anita Laker-Wallfich speak many times down the years. Her manner is direct and straight-talking. She comes across as fiercely strong and independent, recounting her experiences pragmatically; describing the most monstrous acts of humanity, acts far beyond the imagination of anyone who did not live in those death camps. Both Anita and her sister, Renate, gained a most unlikely stay of execution - they were both talented musicians, so they were chosen to play in the camp’s women’s orchestra. A personification of Nazi gallows’ humour. Entertaining the Auschwitz SS officers in the evenings; playing marches to accompany the walk of the emaciated zombies as they went off to work in the mornings. Not all returned in the evenings. The dead were carried back to the camp and dumped. If you want to learn about what it is to live with the cold hands of death around your neck every day, read this book. Anita Laker-Wallfich is now the only living musician left from hell’s harmony.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Jan, 2021
Just what I neefed
Thank youVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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