No Mans Blood

Church, Gene

Natl Literary Guild

<p>a study of abuse in encounter groups of the early 1970s</p>

The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled

Outerbridge & Lazard; distribu

80629

History

Sharon Kimberly Damon Pub Co

<p>"80629" refers to the number tattooed on 18-year-old Yakoff Skurnik's arm upon his arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1942. Church (The Pit, etc.) traces Skurnik's horrific ordeal, including disfiguring experimental surgery supervised by the infamous Josef Mengele, escape from the Auschwitz death march on the eve of the Allied invasion and adjustment to postwar life (Skurnik, who changed his name to Jack Oran, is now a Dallas businessman). Readers won't expect pretty reading from a concentration camp account, but this work's relentlessly graphic and detailed descriptions of castration, defecation and torture are notably gut-wrenching. The idyllic portrayal of Skurnik's prewar family life is unrealistic, and Church's unfortunate penchant for melodramatic, overwritten prose is a disservice to the heartfelt story. Author tour.</p>

80629: A Mengele Experiment

Route 66 Pub Ltd

The Birth of Hacksaw Ridge: How It All Began

Biographies & Memoirs

Crosby, Gregory

Leaders & Notable People

Longitude Entertainment Publications

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