"In an unusual but compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp, weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from occupied Europe. One, a fictionalized memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of...

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Hauptverfasser:	Schrag, Otto 1902-1971 (VerfasserIn), Schrag, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bloomington [u.a.] Indiana Univ. Press 2015
Schlagworte:	Schrag, Otto / 1902-1971 Schrag, Peter Geschichte 1940-1941 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Germany / Personal narratives Holocaust survivors / Germany / Biography Flucht Judenverfolgung Deutschland Biografie Erlebnisbericht
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Zusammenfassung:	"In an unusual but compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp, weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from occupied Europe. One, a fictionalized memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and mother, supplemented by historical research. The result is both personal and provocative, involving as it does issues of history and memory, fiction and "truth," courage and resignation. This is not a "Holocaust memoir." The Schrags were Jews, and Otto was interned, under execrable conditions, in southern France. But Otto, with the help of a heroic wife, escaped the camp before the start of massive transfers of prisoners "to the East," and Peter and his mother escaped from Belgium before the Jews were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Still, the danger and suffering, the comradeship and betrayal, the naïve hopes and cynical despair of those in prison and those in peril are everywhere in evidence"--
Beschreibung:	xxx, 290 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	9780253017697 9780253017857