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Article: Three who survived the Holocaust.(BOOKS)(MEMOIRS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2005
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Hitler's attempt to create a Judenrein (cleansed of Jews) Europe, three Jews who were between seven and 10 when World War II broke out have written memoirs recounting how they survived. Theirs are stories of almost unbelievable hardships, deprivation and triumph.
Aharon Appelfeld's The Story of a Life (Schocken Books, $23, 198 pages, with an excellent translation from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter) is the most literary of the three, a powerful, sensitive memoir of the soul. Mr. Appelfeld dwells less on facts, which enter the narrative at times almost as asides, ...