Yehuda Koren
Autore di Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Sull'Autore
Yehuda Koren writes feature articles for the British, Israeli, and German press, including the London Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and Die Welt.
Opere di Yehuda Koren
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- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Israel
- Istruzione
- Hebrew University
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- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 479
- Popolarità
- #51,492
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 24
- Lingue
- 4
Sometimes this book goes into second person narration, which I'm not a fan of, but I kept reading. The book goes into the social history of people with dwarfism, which fascinating and horrifying. Human beings were baked into pies and jumped out as merriment. I was so upset to learn that, that I had to set down the book for twenty minutes. That's not even thirty pages in. People were given to royal families as gifts, and seen as pets, entertainment, and most frequently, children. I hadn't known any of this before. I'm glad I do now. I was aware of the royalty-inspired stage names, though. Originally I was so upset, thinking they were terms of mockery. This book informed me that no, the entertainers chose their own names. Then it made a few jabs at rulers including Napoleon, and I laughed uproariously.
The descriptions of the camps and the testing, along with my horror and disgust, started soon after. The experiences of other prisoners are described as well. Halfway through the book, I wanted it to be over. Meticulous historical details are presented, and--just kept going. Many years' experiences are documented, and nine chapters are spent on 1944 alone. The chapters that follow address the decades until 2000, when the last survivor of the family, Perla, died. Two different collections of photos are scanned into the book, one solely from the 1940s and the other from 1945 onward. The photos somehow make everything bleaker, but I looked at them carefully. I tried to read this book in one sitting so it would be over, and worried I'd have nightmares. I didn't dream anything I could remember, and finished the book the next morning. I just sat for awhile. There was little else I could do.
This book is so important.… (altro)