The Shadow of Death: The Holocaust in Lithuania - Hardcover

Gordon, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813117674 ISBN 13: 9780813117676

Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992

Synopsis

Harry Gordon's descriptions of daily life and bureaucracy in the infamous Slobodka ghetto, the brutal conditions of the punishing work brigades, and the mass executions in Auschwitz and Dachau are direct and unsentimental. His gripping memoir is a shocking reminder that the Holocaust was not perpetuated by the Germans alone, but also by Lithuanian nationals, rebel Ukrainians, and the Soviet Red Army.

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Review:

A powerful tribute to the human spirit and the will and determination of one human being to survive in a hell not of one's own making. - CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly ""Gordon's memoir of surviving the Holocaust in Lithuania is told from the perspective of a youth who grew up in a large, supportive family circle but learned how to endure through his own wit and by confronting the worst of human nature."" - Library Journal

About the Author:

Harry Gordon emigrated to the United States in 1949 and now lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0813117674
• ISBN 13: 9780813117676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174