A former concentration camp prisoner and medic recounts his experiences

Pilgrim Among the Shadows/a Memoir (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book)

Pahor, Boris

Harvest Books

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles, Germans. Twenty years later, when he visits a camp in the Vosges Mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument, images of his experiences come back to him: corpses being carried to the ovens; emaciated prisoners in wooden clogs and ragged, zebra-striped uniforms, struggling up the steps of a quarry or standing at roll call in the cold rain; the infirmary, reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor s stirring account of his attempts to provide medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps and of his coming to terms with the ineradicable guilt he feels, having survived when millions did not.

Necropolis (Slovenian Literature)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Dalkey Archive Press

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death.Necropolis is Pahor's stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps - and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.

Necropolis (Canons)

History

World

Canongate Canons

La Porte dorée

Literature & Fiction

Literary

DU ROCHER

Rudi Leban, le Slovne, vient d'chapper de justesse une rafle allemande la gare de Trieste. Le voil contraint de reprendre aussitt un train qui remonte, lui-mme, le fil d'une longue histoire de rsistance au joug italien, illumine par la prsence de la jeune Vida. Repli sur le haut plateau du Karst, Rudi sait qu'il va lui falloir bientt revenir Trieste. Revenir chez lui aprs bien des dtours - comme Ulysse Ithaque - et chasser de la mythique ville-dans-le-golfe tous les prtendants, fascistes ou nazis, au coeur slovne. Un rcit de rsistance et de libration son apoge. Par l'auteur de l'inoubliable Plerin parmi les ombres (La Table ronde), figure majeure de la culture europenne dont l'oeuvre est traduite dans le monde entier.

Quand Ulysse Revient A Trieste

Genre Fiction

PG DE ROUX

DANS LE LABYRINTHE

PHEBUS

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