Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.
The Survivors (Paperback)
The Story of the Belsen Remnant
Imprint: Vallentine Mitchell
Pages: 113
ISBN: 9780853038214
Published: 3rd February 2009
Script Academic & Professional
Pages: 113
ISBN: 9780853038214
Published: 3rd February 2009
Script Academic & Professional
This book will be reprinted and your order will be released in due course.
You'll be £13.95 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase The Survivors. What's this?
+£4.99 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates
(click here for international delivery rates)
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates
Leslie H. Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what he did. The horror which first confronts him is overwhelming, and something other than himself makes him stay and face it. In the beginning he feels he is making no inroads into the task he has set himself, that he is a pigmy grappling with a mountain. But with courage and patience he brings faith, comfort and help to the stricken survivors. In his mission he meets some remarkable men and women: Marta the woman doctor, Yankel the strong man, Eva whose love is oddly deflected, Joseph who rises to astonishing heights, and many others. He himself is enmeshed in the life of liberated Belsen, experiencing hope, despair, intolerance, inspiration. This book is an authentic record, written with compassionate understanding. The account of the rebirth of the almost dehumanised survivors is an inspiring, rather than a harrowing narrative. In the simplicity and sincerity of its writing, it tells a moving and vivid story of a crime which has shocked the world, but which should be read and remembered.
Other titles in Vallentine Mitchell...