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Treblinka survivor : the life and death of Hershl Sperling / Mark S. Smith.

Title
Treblinka survivor : the life and death of Hershl Sperling / Mark S. Smith.
Author
Smith, Mark S.
Publication
Stroud : History Press, 2010.

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Book/TextRequest in advance DS134.42.S64 S65 2010Off-site

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Description
256 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation and discovered in his briefcase after his suicide. It is reproduced here for the first time.
Subject
  • Sperling, Hershl
  • Treblinka (Concentration camp)
  • 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects
  • Holocaust survivors > Poland > Biography
  • Holocaust survivors > Glasgow > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The bridge -- The book -- Poland -- Klobuck -- Czestochowa -- The plan unfolds -- To the gates of hell -- Ghosts of Treblinka -- Treblinka in history -- The selection -- Between life and death -- The spite -- Conspiracy -- Uprising and escape -- The forest -- Auschwitz -- Germany -- Restless and hopeful -- Memory -- The search for life -- Shock treatment -- The final struggle -- The end -- The hope -- Piecing together a life -- Hershl's testimony.
ISBN
  • 9780752456188 (hbk.)
  • 0752456180 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2010474354
OCLC
  • 528397856
  • SCSB-11011057
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library