The Children's Block

The Children's Block
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781643133966
ISBN-13 : 1643133969
Rating : 4/5 (969 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Children's Block by : Otto Kraus

Download or read book The Children's Block written by Otto Kraus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We grew intimate not only in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of one womb, we would certainly die together.Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner, and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz- Birkenau, also known as the Children’s Block. He spends his days trying to survive and illegally giving lessons to his young charges, all while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is involved in. Alex is keeping a diary…


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