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1 online resource (489 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE BY SAM SPERLING; CHAPTER ONE : THE BRIDGE; CHAPTER TWO : THE BOOK; CHAPTER THREE : POLAND; CHAPTER FOUR : KLOBUCK; CHAPTER FIVE : CZESTOCHOWA; CHAPTER SIX : THE PLAN UNFOLDS; CHAPTER SEVEN : TO THE GATES OF HELL; CHAPTER EIGHT : GHOSTS OF TREBLINKA; CHAPTER NINE : TREBLINKA IN HISTORY; CHAPTER TEN : THE SELECTION; CHAPTER ELEVEN : BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH; CHAPTER TWELVE : THE SPITE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN : CONSPIRACY; CHAPTER FOURTEEN : UPRISING AND ESCAPE; CHAPTER FIFTEEN : THE FOREST; CHAPTER SIXTEEN : AUSCHWITZ |
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : GERMANYCHAPTER EIGHTEEN : RESTLESS AND HOPEFUL; CHAPTER NINETEEN : MEMORY; CHAPTER TWENTY : THE SEARCH FOR LIFE; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE : SHOCK TREATMENT; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO : THE FINAL STRUGGLE; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE : THE END; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR : HOPE; POSTSCRIPT : PIECING TOGETHER A LIFE; APPENDIX : HERSHL'S TESTIMONY; Plates; Copyright |
| 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? This book traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and what he had to do to achieve this |
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Print version record |
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Sperling, Hershl
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Treblinka (Concentration camp)
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| SUBJECT |
Treblinka (Concentration camp) fast |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Holocaust survivors -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Holocaust survivors
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Psychological aspects
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Poland
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Scotland -- Glasgow
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780752462424 |
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0752462423 |
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