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A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp presents his memoir of his and his wife's experiences in the camps, his experiences as a veteran of Israel's war of independence, and his feelings on returning to Buchenwald fifty years later. Simultaneous. Tour. IP.
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Glimpses is a powerful story of love and survival.
"Written with passion and urgengy...a dramatic life story." Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate
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"Written with passion and urgengy...a dramatic life story." Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate
"An exceptionally powerful and poignant memoir...an invaluable contribution to the literature. Few works convey such emotional impact." William Styron, author
Benjamin Bender, then seventeen, was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp by American forces on April 11, 1945. Forty-five years later, a chance encounter led to his inclusion in an Academy Award-nominated documentary film shot on location there. "Glimpses" is his compelling story, an odyssey of life, death and survival in the twentieth century.
Bender’s memoir of childhood, Holocaust and liberation is woven together with the parallel narrative of his wife’s ghetto and partisan experiences, and follows them to their new lives in Israel where they meet and marry in the midst of another war. An epilogue finds them back in Buchenwald, Germany, for the first time in nearly fifty years. Told with unflinching honesty, humor and insight, the daily details of these two lives reveal the courageous, sad and often wrenching realities of war and displacement. A unique personal vision with no pulled punches, "Glimpses" is an everyman’s tale: naive and immediate, expressed more with awe than rancor, testimony to the ability of hope and the human spirit to survive even the worst nightmare.
[The film "Liberators" featured the author’s return to Buchenwald and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. It was also honored with the IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award and has been broadcast nationally on PBS, in Australia, and throughout Europe.]
The film Liberators featured the author's return to Buchenwlad and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. It was also honored with the IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award, and has been broadcast nationally on PBS, in Australia, and throughout Europe.
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- PublisherNorth Atlantic Books,U.S.
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1556432089
- ISBN 13 9781556432088
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Holocaust survivor Bender was 11 years old when the German army invaded his native Poland. He lived in Czestochowa, a backward town steeped in medieval ideas and anti-Semitic attitudes--and thoroughly unprepared for the mechanized terror of the Nazis. When the SS arrived, Bender, his family, and the town's other Jews were soon segregated into a ghetto. Later, Bender and his brother were spared from the death camps because they could provide useful labor for Hitler's war machine. Forced to leave their parents behind, they moved from factory to factory, only to end up at Buchenwald.Interspersed throughout are chapters about Bender's future wife, Sara, her struggle against Nazi occupation, and how she and Bender later met in an Israeli kibbutz. Glimpses is an extremely readable narrative that's both horrifying and uplifting. Seller Inventory # DADAX1556432089
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