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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Personal Narrative Autobiographies Biographies Personal narratives Récits personnels Erlebnisbericht Biography |
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Named Person: | Paul Steinberg; Paul Steinberg; Paul Steinberg |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Steinberg |
ISBN: | 0805060642 9780805060645 |
OCLC Number: | 43599155 |
Description: | 163 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Apprenticeship -- Digression I -- The Last Fight -- The Life and Death of Philippe -- Digression II -- The Black Hole -- The Last Salon -- One Sunday in Spring -- The Big Bluff -- Digression III -- The Verdict -- The Slap -- Digression IV -- Funeral March -- The Last Lap -- Hindsight. |
Other Titles: | Chronique d'ailleurs. |
Responsibility: | Paul Steinberg ; translated by Linda Coverdale with Bill Ford. |
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Abstract:
"In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as Henri, the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity."
"Now, after fifty years, Paul Steinberg speaks for himself. In an unsparing act of self-scrutiny, he traces his passage from artless adolescent to a ruthless creature determined to do anything to live. He describes his strategies of survival: the boxing matches he staged for the camp commanders, the English POWs he exploited, the maneuvers and tactics he applied with cold competence. Ultimately, he confirms Levi's judgment."--Jacket.
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