The Boys: The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors

Author:	Martin Gilbert
ISBN:	0805044035 , 9780805044034
Publisher:	Holt Paperbacks
Date:	1998-09-15
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Product Description：

Fewer than 100,000 Jews survived the death camps. This is the story of 732 of those Jews--all under the age of sixteen in 1945. It is the story of what they lost, of what they, as children, suffered, and, most of all, of what they overcame. Robbed of their childhoods, orphaned by violence and bestiality, they ought to have become sociopaths. Instead, they rebuilt their lives and dedicated them to the memory of those who were not as lucky. Told in their voices, The Boys bears witness to the power of the human spirit.

Amazon.com Review：

Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other Nazi death camps were places of death--not only of the body, but also of the spirit, for the German captors sought to rob their prisoners of their very humanity through routine torture and terrorism. Only a fraction of those who entered the camps survived to bear witness to that brutal regime. Martin Gilbert, the distinguished English historian, gathers the testimonials of 732 men who spent their early teens in the camps. Most have dedicated themselves to good works, he writes, organizing humanitarian relief efforts in Israel and elsewhere, for instance, and otherwise pledging themselves to noble causes. This is an important contribution to the literature of the Holocaust--and to the possibilities of the human soul. --Gregory McNamee