No road leading back : an improbable escape from the Nazis and the tangled way we tell the story of the Holocaust
Heath, Chris2024
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'No Road Leading Back' is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the pits where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labour - an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. Trapped in almost unimaginable horror, some of the men who were part of this 'burning brigade' put together an audacious escape plan. They dug a tunnel with their bare hands and spoons despite being guarded day and night - an act not just of great bravery and desperation but of extraordinary imagination.
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London : The Bridge Street Press, 2024.
Collation:
xxi, 614 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part I. WartimeA place called PonarA man who escaped twiceIn the Vilna ghettoThe teenager's storyInto the pitThe new arrivalsThe bodiesOf bureaucracyThe ideaThe diggingThe escapeThe forestPart II. AfterTitle to comeThe first accountsAn official reportThe death of Konstantin PotaninPoetry and proseThe path of Shlomo GolA story untoldYuli FarberTo IsraelLife in IsraelThe accidental witnessesLife onwardThe historianShoahIn AmericaFrom the darkOn returningThe custodianA man called SakowiczLocalsWhere the mushrooms growThe guilty and their ghosts.Abraham Blazer.Part III. DiscoveryThe lost tunnel.Lithuania, then and now.The searchers.June 2016The daughterDiscoveries and disputesOther tracesThe Final TwoWilliam GoodEchoesOne day each yearA song about PonarEpilogue: One more man.
ISBN:
9780349136271 (paperback)
Dewey class:
940.5318
Language:
English
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BRN:
507196
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 940.5318 NOR | Available |