The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor
By Otto Kraus
Read by Lewis Taylor
Unabridged
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ISBN: 9798200239672
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ISBN: 9798200239689
| Runtime: | 8.81 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A literary event that tells the 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
Author Bio: Otto Kraus
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| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 8.81 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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