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The Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945
Hanna Levy-Hass
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The Diary of Bergen-Belsen is a unique, deeply political survivor's diary from the final year inside the notorious concentration camp. Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to record on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity and attention to the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
The Diary of Bergen-Belsen is a unique, deeply political survivor's diary from the final year inside the notorious concentration camp. Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to record on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity and attention to the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781608464609
SKU
V9781608464609
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99-4
About Hanna Levy-Hass
Born in Sarajevo, Hanna Levy-Hass was an activist in the Resistance to the German occupation of Yugoslavia. She was taken from Montenegro to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the Nazis in 1944. Her diary has been published in many languages. Amira Haas writes a regular column in Ha’aretz newspaper, and is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza: ... Read more
Reviews for The Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945
In March 1945, the final month before liberation, nearly 20,000 prisoners died there. Lévy-Hass described this form of genocide in her diary: the slow, vile, calculated destruction by hunger, violence, terror, and deliberately sustained epidemics”. Her rare description of the final months of the Holocaust is marked by political consciousness, moral understanding, and perceptive observation. Lévy-Hass has much to tell ... Read more