The Search: The Birkenau Boys
by Gerhard Durlacher
In the 1980s Dutch sociologist Gerhard Durlacher set out to find the boys who had been imprisoned in Auschwitz with him 40 years earlier and survived. This is their story.
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“What’s interesting about this book is how Durlacher makes an attempt to reconnect with other boys who had gone through the same experience. It’s valuable not so much for what it tells us about Auschwitz as what it tells us about survivors.” Read more...
Mary Fulbrook, Historian
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