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1st Dutch ed. (1978)

Film (1993)

Title

Jona Oberski. Childhood. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983 / repr. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014.

• English trans. of Jona Oberski's Kinderjaren ('s-Gravenhage: BZZTôH, 1978). <Dutch>. See Jona Oberski (M / Netherlands, 1938), Holocaust survivor

Abstract

"Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old Jona waits with his mother and father to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to Palestine, they are awakened at night, put on a train, and eventually interred in the camps at Bergen-Belsen. There, what at first seems to be a merely dreary existence soon reveals itself to be one of the worst horrors humanity has ever created. A triumph of heartrending clarity and dispassionate amazement, Childhood stands tall alongside such monuments of Holocaust literature as The Diary of Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel’s Night, and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz."--Publisher description.