Necropolis

Necropolis
ISBN-10
1838852301
ISBN-13
9781838852306
Series
Necropolis
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2020-01-23
Publisher
Canongate Books
Author
Boris Pahor

Description

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor’s stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps – and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.

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