The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor by Kraus, Otto

The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

A literary event that tells story of five hundred children who lived in the Czech Family Camp...
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Author: Otto Kraus
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The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor by Kraus, Otto

The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

$68.58

The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

$68.58
Author: Otto Kraus
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A literary event that tells story of five hundred children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944.

We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We grew intimate not only in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of one womb, we would certainly die together.

Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, also known as the Children's Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary . . .

Author: Otto Kraus
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781643133287


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2020

About the Author
Otto Kraus was born in Prague. He and his family were deported in May 1942 to Ghetto Terezin and from there to Auschwitz, where he became one of the children's counselors on the Kinderblock. He was married to Dita Kraus, whom knew from the Kinderblock. She was the character on whom The Library of Auschwitz is based. Otto died at home on October 5, 2000, surrounded by his family.


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