I had planned, after
reading Prisoner of Tehran, to go for something lighter but I found myself
going fir this book and starting on it.
Promised to be another harrowing one,
taking into consideration the name Auschwitz. And it was. Heartbreaking. The
book traces Thomas’ life from Lubocha to Poland, first to Katowice then to the
ghetto of Kielce then eventually to Auschwitz, his survival of the Auschwitz
Death Transport to Sachsenhausen and the liberation. |
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I heave a sigh of relief
when liberation comes then his joining the Polish Army, joining the Orphanage
for Jews, finding his mother and eventually moving to America. The Boy in the
Striped Pajamas and The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank were books of
children who did not survive, and broke my heart. A Lucky Child is about
survival and forgiveness and starting afresh. It is a great read for someone
who would need to understand the personal impact of the Holocaust, how far
reaching it was; the loss of dignity, loss of property, loss of family and loss
of years that no one can bring back. After reading so much, I still fail to
understand how one man, Adolf Hitler could have been this cruel. I will never
make sense of this period and I am beginning to feel like I should stop reading
Holocaust themed texts for a while.
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