Siegmund Siegreich

The Thirty-Six (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Not another Holocaust memoir,' I groaned under my breath when I received my review copy. And there is really nothing new in Sigi Siegrich's story of the horrors of war-time Poland - the deprivations of daily life, the humiliations (and worse) suffered at the hands of the Nazi occupiers, the overnight disappearances of family and friends - never to be seen again. But (big, big 'but'), this particular telling - this particular viewpoint - is mesmerising. It is personal and well beyond personal, self-aware without self-pity and honest without hatred. The publishers are marketing this book as an adult title, though I think (because it is so well written and so well told) that young readers will also find it compelling. So, get a copy for your teenage nephew, niece or grandchild. They will be horrified and they may even shed a few tears. I can guarantee that they won't forget it - and that is the main thing!

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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.