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Boy 30529: A Memoir (2013)

by Felix Weinberg(Favorite Author)
3.67 of 5 Votes: 3
ISBN
1781680787 (ISBN13: 9781781680780)
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English
publisher
Verso
review 1: I have to be honest. I was unable to finish reading this book because I had checked it out from the library. It was a new book and I failed to read it fast enough. I tried to renew it but wasn't allowed to. I guess there is a waiting list for the book so I had to give return it. What I had read so far was pretty good though. I got as far as the part where the father was in London and the mother was unable to come up with the proper paers to get her and the family out safe.
review 2: A very interesting and insightful book by Physicist Felix Weinberg about his teenage years in a Nazi concentration camp. Weinberg's memories of his Holocaust days are vivid and he does a very good job of communicating the horrors as seen through the eyes of a youngster, in particul
... morear recounting the things that helped him survive. Weinberg had a tremendous will to live and several "lucky" incidents that spared him from becoming one of the murdered Jews. less
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Dian
Good. Very enlightening as to what went on in the camps and how some managed to survive.
ohfauxshow
Reminded me a lot of Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Except this was a real life version.
Natalie
**3.5 stars
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