The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps

by Terrence Des Pres · 1976

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An eloquent revelation that touches the foundations of what man is. Neither despairing nor conventionally hopeful, The Survivordescribes the most terrible events in human memory. But what emerges finally is an image of man stubbornly equal to the worst that can happen.

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