All the horrors of war : a Jewish girl, a British doctor, and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.5318/LERNER,B

1 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.5318/LERNER,B Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
©2020
DESCRIPTION

264 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781421437705, 1421437708, 9781421437705
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

First Witness, The Belsen Trial (Fall 1945) -- Spring (March, April, May) 1944 -- Summer (June, July, August) 1944 -- Fall (September, October, November) 1944 -- Winter (December, January, February) 1944-1945 -- Spring (March, April, May) 1945 -- Seasons after -- Epilogue

"Author Bernice Lerner follows Glyn Hughes, a British officer and doctor, and Rachel Genuth, a Romanian Jewish girl, as they moved (or were moved) across Europe in the final brutal year of World War II. Although the two never met, Hughes's commitment to saving as many prisoners of Bergen-Belsen as possible saved Rachel's life. This book is the first to pair the story of a Holocaust survivor with that of a concentration camp liberator"--