Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; PROLOGUE; A GUEST OF POLAND; ONE; TWO; THREE; IN THE OGRE'S CAVE; FOUR; FIVE; SIX; SEVEN; EIGHT; NINE; TEN; DANCING AT AUSCHWITZ; ELEVEN; TWELVE; THIRTEEN; FOURTEEN; IN PARADISE; FIFTEEN; SIXTEEN; Acknowledgments |
Summary |
In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths in this single camp. These people are joined by Clements Olin, an American academic of Polish descent, there to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor, even as he questions what a non-Jew with no connection to its his |
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Teachers -- Fiction
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Jewish women -- Fiction
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Family secrets -- Fiction
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Family secrets
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Jewish women
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Teachers
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Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781925113228 |
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1925113221 |
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