The Final Station: Umschlagplatz
by Jaroslaw M. Rymkiewicz
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Author: Jaroslaw M. RymkiewiczTranslator: Nina Taylor
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-03
ISBN: 0374154953
Number of pages: 327
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
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Book Review: the Final Station: Umschlagplatz
Summary: 5 Stars
This book came to me as a surprize. My wife is a librarian and she brought it to me "on spec". I've renewed it twice since. Rymkiewicz weaves here an extraordinary collage of thought and emotion, reason and passion as he leads us through the spectre that was the holocaust in Poland. The narrator is elusive, as if he were the collective mind of all those who lived through the terrible days of the Warsaw Ghetto, its precursors and its aftermath. There is guilt here for the massive consent -- if not cooperation -- with the NAZIs. There is sorrow over the helplessness of ordinary people run over, figuratively, by the tanks and uniforms of the totalitarian state. All is told in a style that defies description in conventional terms; time and substance swim back and forth, making this more a collage of humanity at its weakest and worst rather than a narrative of a single event. A good read, with amazing quotes.
Summary of The Final Station: Umschlagplatz
A uniquely personal Polish account of the Holocaust. At once a meditation, journal, and a novel, this work includes a reconstruction of the minutest details of genocide and a fictional account of a group of Jewish and Christian friends meeting shortly before the war for a summer of frivolity.Poland Books
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