Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945

✍ Scribed by Levy-Hass, Hanna

• Book ID: 108189080
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781608460779

✦ Synopsis

A unique, deeply political survivor’s diary from the final year inside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.

Amira Hass, the only Israeli journalist living in and writing from within the Occupied Territories, offers a substantial introduction to her mother’s work.

Praise for Hanna Levy-Hass and Diary of Bergen-Belsen

“A compelling document of historic importance which shows, with remarkable composure, that ethical thought about what it means to be human can be sustained in the most inhuman conditions. Hanna Levy-Hass teaches us how a politics of compassion and justice can...