Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what...
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Author: Paul Steinberg
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Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning by Steinberg, Paul

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

€26,05

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

€26,05
Author: Paul Steinberg
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? 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. One seems to glimpse a human soul, Levi wrote in If This Is a Man, but then Henri's sad smile freezes in a cold grimace, and here he is again, intent on his hunt and his struggle; hard and distant, enclosed in armor, the enemy of all.

Now, after fifty years, Steinberg speaks for himself. In an unsparing act of self-scrutiny, he traces his passage from artless adolescent to 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: No doubt he saw straight. I probably was that creature, prepared to use whatever means I had available. But, he asks, Is it so wrong to survive?

Brave and rare, Speak You Also is a profound and necessary addition to the body of Holocaust writing: a survivor's reckoning with culpability and survival.

Author: Paul Steinberg
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 12/07/2001
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780312420451

About the Author

Paul Steinberg was born in Berlin in 1926 and immigrated to France at the age of seven. Deported to Auschwitz in l943, he was the only member of his family to survive the war. After liberation, Steinberg returned to Paris, where he lived until his death in 1999.




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