Odissei︠a︡ vyz︠h︡ivshego rebi︠o︡nka: iz Latvii v Ameriku cherez lageri︠a︡
Perevodchik s angliĭskogo: Brod Ivar
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George Schwab wrote an outstanding memoir about the Holocaust. What makes them special is what is reflected in them, as a teenager who grew up in a very wealthy family - with a governess, tennis games, furniture and carpets from the royal palace, dinners in the pavilion where canapes with cocoa were served - the same fate befell and Jews from the poorest shtetls. Schwab tells his sad story without a drop of self-pity, yet his detailed and very lively narrative of cattle cars, slave labor, death marches, the loss of family in the gas chambers and Nazi violence breaks his heart.
Before the reader, George Schwab's fascinating recollections of an extraordinary life, beginning with a calm pre-war childhood in Latvia, bypassing the horrors and tragedies of the Holocaust, culminating in outstanding academic achievements and a career in international politics. The beautiful, sincere book The Odyssey of a Child Surviving shows us a brave and conscientious man who exudes pride in being a Jew and firmly refuses to bow his head to both Nazi persecutors and Latvian collaborators and American university bosses. - Menachem C. Rosenzaft, General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress, Associate Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, Lecturer of Law at Columbia University School of Law.
The Odyssey of a Child Survivor. From Latvia to America through the camps ”by George Schwab, it is not for nothing that it bears this name. The author naturally moves from personal to professional and back, conveying not only the advantages and disadvantages of the places he has visited and the people he meets, but also a passion for life that can only be understood by those who prematurely experienced its fragility. The Odyssey is an amazing book of an amazing person, an intelligent book of an intelligent person, a serious book of a serious person, but at the same time a funny book of a cheerful person. The Odyssey of a Child Survivor is a memoir that we should all read.
