Large Print Book
The day the Nazis came : the true story of a childhood journey to the dark heart of a German prison camp
Published 2021 by Center Point Large Print, Thorndike, Maine
ISBN 9781643589671
Bib Id 2454577
Copyright 2021
Edition Center Point Large Print edition.
Description 396 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Leader
03642cam a2200541 i 4500
LCCN
2021-935039
ISBN
9781643589671 (hardcover) $37.95
1643589679
Call #
LG-PRINT 940.5316 M
Title
The day the Nazis came : the true story of a childhood journey to the dark heart of a German prison camp
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Publication Information
2021 by Center Point Large Print, Thorndike, Maine :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
396 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Note
Published by arrangement with: Pegasus Books.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-396)
Summary
"The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through the eyes of a child. Our narrator's parents did their best to protect his emotional well-being, downplaying the extent of dangers and presenting every new day as an adventure. But there is only so much you can do to hide such a dark truth and, by the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had actually seen and experienced things of unspeakable horror: he had witnessed a bombardment by the Luftwaffe and had been deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich; he had seen men die in front of him; he had walked alongside Jews coming straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen; he had nearly drowned, been menaced by an Alsatian guard dog, and had his hand broken by a German guard for attempting to feed Russian prisoners. Against all odds, Stephen and his family endured over three years of imprisonment, held together by their will to survive, their love for each other, and the humor they had all been gifted with. But when the war ended and they were set free, the home they eventually returned to had been irremediably scarred and stricken by Nazi occupation and so, once again, they had to fight to pick up the pieces"--
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Large type books.
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