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Named Person: | Sven Sonnenberg |
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Document Type: | Book |
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Sven Sonnenberg |
ISBN: | 0968842909 9780968842904 |
OCLC Number: | 470980836 |
Notes: | Notes bibliogr. |
Description: | 1 v. (140 p.) : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | by Sven Sonnenberg. |
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High quality memoir
This is a very special book I enjoyed immensely while reading. I could recommend it as an example of good memoir writing. When one reads memoirs published so much nowadays, it is sometimes really difficult to find in those books real interest except the...
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This is a very special book I enjoyed immensely while reading. I could recommend it as an example of good memoir writing. When one reads memoirs published so much nowadays, it is sometimes really difficult to find in those books real interest except the dry chronicles of history events. On the contrary, ‘Two Step Journey…” contains a balance of graphic documentary, the episodes of classical style of a narrative (at the same time not overloaded with unnecessary tiresome details, but here and there filled with mild humor) and a well-written personal story with occasional insertions good quality episodes of political essay, quite topical at present time.
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This book written by the Holocaust survivor is combining cold observations of a witness of those horrors that teenager saw by himself and the stream of historical events he had to live through: the Nazi Regime in Eastern Europe, Polish partisans’ actions against German Army, coming Soviet troops and their behavior, Communist experiment implemented in the country, and finally leaving Poland for the “American Dream”. The courageous and wise man wrote this book. He managed to survive the Jewish ghetto starvation and horrors of everyday presence of death, the wartime destruction, the misery of everyday existence under Socialism, and permanent humiliation of Anti-Antisemitism of Eastern Europe. This is a paradox, but in spite of all of these, the author did not become bitter and disappointed, but became wiser and stronger, and you can see in this book how that wisdom was crystallized through suffer and struggle.
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