Roman Halter

Roman's Journey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Roman Halter (1927-2012) was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gathered behind the curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German-Polish) neighbors of their small town in western Poland greet the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika flags.

Within days, the family home had been seized, 12-year-old Roman had become a slave of the local SS chief, and, returning from an errand, he silently witnessed his Jewish classmates being bayoneted to death by soldiers at the edge of town. So began his remarkable six-year journey through some of the darkest caverns of Nazi Europe that claimed the lives of his family and the 800-strong community of his boyhood.

Incredibly, he survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, the Stutthof concentration camp, and a slave factory in Dresden, only to find this his native village, postwar, was nothing like the home he remembered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789493276871
• Artikelnr.: 67388855

Autorenporträt

Born in Western Poland in 1927, Roman Halter enjoyed a notable career in the UK after the Second World War as an architect and a teacher of architecture. In 1974 he left architecture and began making stained-glass windows and HM the Queen's Royal Coat of Arms for British embassies and Crown courts. Halter died in 2012. His paintings of his experiences during the war went on show at Tate Britain and they are all at the Imperial War Museum in London.