Description
Holocaust Studies. In what Elie Wiesel has called a moving and important novel, Peter Boner traces the fields of resistance to Nazi oppression and genocide through the lives of three characters. Paul, a member of the Hitler Youth, turns against the system after witnessing the brutalities of the Nazis on Kristallnacht. He flees to the U.S. where he enlists to fight the Nazis. Johann, an uneducated streetcar conductor who, in the face of Nazi atrocities, deliberately gets himself confined in a concentration camp to show his solidarity with Hitler’s victims. Finally, a wealthy shoe manufacturer establishes a satellite concentration camp, thus saving nearly 400 people from almost certain death. A Library Journal Word-of-Mouth Selection.
