Weiter Leben: Eine Jugend - Softcover

Kluger, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3423119500 ISBN 13: 9783423119504

Publisher: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., 2005

Synopsis

Childhood of a Jewish woman in Vienna

At seven years she was no longer allowed to sit on any park bench in her hometown Vienna. At eleven she came to concentration camp. Ruth Klüger tells her childhood and youth.

With incorruptible clarity and sovereign humanity, it reports the horror of the extermination camps and "live on". When she goes to the cinema despite the prohibitions for Jews to see Walt Disney's Snow White, a neighbor's daughter exposes her and threatens with display.

»Death, not sex was the secret about which the adults were shrouded about, which one would have liked to have heard more of. I pretended that I could not sleep, begged to let me fall asleep on the sofa in the living room (actually we said salon), then of course did not fall asleep, had my head under the blanket and hoped to catch some of the horror news that you gave at the table. Some were of unknowns, some of relatives..."

Edition details

• Publisher: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3423119500
• ISBN 13: 9783423119504
• Binding: Paperback