Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805089144 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Aly's account puts a face on the tragedy of the Holocaust."-Publishers Weekly "Inspired… Aly mines a staggering amount of data to great effect."—"The New York Times Book Review " "A book of unparalleled vividness and power."—"Booklist" "A slim but powerful record… Into the Tunnel pieces fragments of an ordinary life into an extraordinary fabric of remembrance. "A book of unparalleled vividness and power."--Booklist "A distinguished and affecting account."--Kirkus "An impressive piece of detective work. Aly's account puts a face on the tragedy of the Holocaust."--Publishers Weekly "A book
"People go into a tunnel in the mountain, and along the way there is a great hole and they all fall in and disappear." One of the abiding insights that comes through in Goetz Ally's Into the Tunnel is just how efficient bureaucracies can be at transforming vibrantly alive human beings into impersonal statistics on official forms. In their extermination program, the Nazis, with an eerie fidelity to record-keeping, felt the need to document every detail of the lives they were destroying. That's why Aly is able to trace the unhappy fate of the beautiful little girl, Marion Samuel, who is the protagonist of this . Eclectician said Chilling machinery created to deliver efficient death. I'll read this book over and over, I am sure - three times already in a day and a half. The first time I tried to focus on the historical scholarship and impeccable method, but was distracted by thoughts of "But why? Why? It doesn't make sense. They were Germans too."Again I read it, and was arrested this time by the mechanistic system set up by the Nazis in what was really quite a short time. Every Jew's (and every other citizen's) address was on a card somewhere - every detail of their life. a short story, but a tale of humanity's inhumanity "Into the Tunnel" by Gotz Aly is the story of a girl's life--one of the murdered millions of Jews under the Nazi regime. Mr. Aly does his best to recreate the life of a little girl by using the records he could find on her life, and filling in gaps with historical information. It is heartbreaking to read the far too short tale of this little girl's life, but what a brilliant idea to pull her from obscurity and give the world this story. It would be wonderful to be able to be able to do this f
Sixty years after her death, when Götz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history.In what is as much a detective story as a historical reconstruction, Aly, praised for his "formidable research skills" (Christopher Browning), traces the Samuel family's agonizing decline from shop owners to forced laborers to deportees. A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivionWhen the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Against al
Götz Aly, the author of Hitler's Beneficiaries and Architects of Annihilation, among other books, is one of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. He has been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches at the Free University of Berlin.