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Mit elf Jahren wurde die gebürtige Wienerin und spätere amerikanische Germanistin Ruth Klüger in das KZ Theresienstadt und nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert. Sie überlebte, doch das weitere Leben blieb bis zuletzt eine Herausforderung. In ihren Erinnerungen schildert Klüger fünfzig Jahre später ihre jüdische Kindheit und Jugend in Wien während des Nationalsozialismus, die Bedingungen ihres Überlebens und die (Un)möglichkeit des Weiterlebens. Ihre Worte, so klar wie kompromisslos, schmerzen und erschüttern bis heute. Gelesen von der Autorin selbst, entfaltet der Text einen unwiderstehlichen Sog.

Two Lives tells the remarkable story of Vikram Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle, Shanti, left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother "not to take the blackie". But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and found their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power.

*A New Statesman Best Summer Read* 'A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton 'Brings a welcome freshness of vision and a dashing style … provocative...

Most Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the Soviet Union. Less than ten percent of Polish Jews came out of the war alive-the largest population of Jews who endured-for whom Soviet exile was the main chance for survival. Ellen G. Friedman's The Seven, a Family Holocaust Story is an account of this displacement.