Siegmund Siegreich

The Thirty-Six (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the things that I loved the most was the voice of Siegmund, it was so real and immediate and engaging. I also loved the fact that till the end he was looking at every person as an individual, he was still able to appreciate some humanity in a few of these German characters and at the same time notice that not all Jews were good to all other Jews. It would have been so much easier to make everything just black or white but he was intelligent enough to understand that the world even under the extreme conditions is still not just black or white. It may be also that that very capacity of always looking for good that allowed him to survive the years of war. I don't think that anybody can ever truly imagine how it would feel to live through the things that Siegmund and so many others lived through, or understand the incredible courage and integrity that people like Moniek had, but at least we can glimpse it through the eyes of Siegmund. When I closed the book I kept thinking about how amazing the human spirit is: capable of unimaginable cruelty but at the same time possessing this almost indestructible will to live and love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742745725
• Artikelnr.: 38342750

Autorenporträt

Sigi Siegreich and his family were expelled from their home when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. By the end of 1942, his parents and 167 members of his extended family had been exterminated in the death camps of Treblinka, Belzec and Auschwitz. Fifteen-year-old Sigi was first enslaved in the labour camp at Skarzysko-Kamienna and later at Czestochowa, where he met Hanka, a young girl and fellow prisoner who would eventually save his life. After the war ended, Sigi and Hanka married and began to rebuild their lives. Their daughter Evelyne was the first Jewish child born to Holocaust survivors in Katowice, Sigi's home town. Thanks to a chance meeting with a childhood friend in Munich, Sigi and his family eventually ended up in Melbourne, Australia, where he established a successful import business. Now retired, Sigi is blessed with Hanka, his loving wife for the past sixty-four years, two gorgeous daughters, two sons-in-law, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.