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Absence of Closure

Absence of Closure by Gustav Schonfeld is an incredible memoir torn from the pages of history. Written in clear, forceful prose, this amazing story begins in Czechoslovakia, when Schonfeld was a boy and the Nazis came to power. A survivor of the concentration camps, with half of his relatives dead, Schonfeld came to the United States and struggled to create a new life. Although he became a doctor, married and had children, he couldn’t forget the horrors of the past and began to chronicle his life on paper. Deeply moving and heartfelt, Absence of Closure reveals the bravery and heroism of a wrongly despised people, the love of a son for his father, and the burning need to survive. But more than that, Schonfeld stresses that remembrance is essential so that Nazi atrocities might never happen again. A stunning historical record and a gripping memoir of a remarkable man, Absence of Closure is also an important new work in Holocaust literature.

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Product Details:
Author: Gustav Schonfeld
Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: February 09, 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 1439204098
Package Length: 8.9 inches
Package Width: 5.9 inches
Package Height: 0.8 inches
Package Weight: 1.05 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 2 reviews
 
 

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5Amazing  Jun 25, 2009
By SSC NYC
This is an amazing account of one family's experiences during one of the most horrible times in our history. It is both educational and heart wrenching. I highly recommend this as required reading for all.

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4The facts are painful  Jun 23, 2011
By Brooklyn
This is an extraordinary story of a young man growing up in Hungary prior to WWII and on to his emigration to the US post WWII. The description of life in his home town of Munkacs, Hungary is rich and illuminating. It's as if the reader is there with him. Then the story turns dark as he and his family are shipped off to concentration camps. Yet, Dr. Schonfeld manages to recreate the strange and aberrant sense of life in the camp(s). His ultimate survival and release from the camps, his emigration, with his father, to the US, the reunification of some of the family, and his life thereafter are fascinating. It's a story with a happy ending, but oh, the horrors of arriving at that happy ending. This is a story, as with many others of that time, that cannot be forgotten!!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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