Three Tearless Histories
Erich Hackl
"Powerful inquiries spurred by photos--history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten." --Kirkus Reviews "A missionary voice of human dignity." --World Literature Today Erich Hackl, 2017 recipient of the internationally-recognized Human Rights Award of Upper Austria and winner of multiple literature prizes, brings three little-known and inspiring biographies to light: Gisela Tschofenig's hidden life in the Austrian resistance; a fragmented interview with Wilhelm Brasse, who photographed Auschwitz inmates and saved evidence of Mengele's horrific crimes; and "the multi-generational story of the Klagsbrunns, who fled Nazism in Vienna only to find another kind of terror in fascist Brazil.
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Year:
2017
Publisher:
DoppelHouse Press
Language:
english
Pages:
216
ISBN 10:
099700343X
ISBN 13:
9780997003437
File:
EPUB, 443 KB
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english, 2017