They say diamonds don't burn : the holocaust experience of René Molho of Salonika, Greece
Memoirs of a Greek Jew, describing the suffering of his family after the German occupation in April 1941. On 11 May 1943 he and his family were deported to Auschwitz, where his parents were gassed and he was taken for slave labor. Describes the abuses he and his brother endured in Auschwitz. His brother was subjected to one of Mengele's medical experiments, and was eventually killed. Discusses relations between various groups of prisoners, especially Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews. In November 1944 Molho was transported to Dachau; in April 1945 he was sent on a death march, during which he was liberated by the American army. After the war, Molho served as the director of a hospital for DPs and German POWs; in 1946 he emigrated to the U.S. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, English, ©1994
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