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The Buchenwald Child
William Niven
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Description for The Buchenwald Child
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The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany. At the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, communist prisoners organized resistance against the SS and even planned an uprising. They helped rescue a three-year-old Jewish boy, Stefan Jerzy Zweig, from certain death in the gas chambers. After the war, his story became a focus for the German Democratic Republic's celebration of its resistance to the Nazis. Now Bill Niven tells the true story of Stefan Zweig: what actually happened to him in Buchenwald, how he was protected, and ... Read more
The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany. At the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, communist prisoners organized resistance against the SS and even planned an uprising. They helped rescue a three-year-old Jewish boy, Stefan Jerzy Zweig, from certain death in the gas chambers. After the war, his story became a focus for the German Democratic Republic's celebration of its resistance to the Nazis. Now Bill Niven tells the true story of Stefan Zweig: what actually happened to him in Buchenwald, how he was protected, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571134042
SKU
V9781571134042
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99-50
About William Niven
BILL NIVEN is Professor Emeritus of History at Nottingham Trent University, UK
Reviews for The Buchenwald Child
[A] very well edited review of Dampier's excellent journals.. [His] reputation has been rehabilitated and enhanced more recently. This fine book has contributed substantially.
AUSMARINE
In this original and thoroughly researched analysis, Bill Niven picks his way with admirable clarity through the tangled webs of spin and counter-spin, never claiming to attain a definitive narrative of what 'really' ... Read more
AUSMARINE
In this original and thoroughly researched analysis, Bill Niven picks his way with admirable clarity through the tangled webs of spin and counter-spin, never claiming to attain a definitive narrative of what 'really' ... Read more