Description: Very Good+ 1555830064. 120 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22cm; Glossary, footnotes, small map.; Translated by David Fernbach. Introduction by Klaus Müller (Mueller). The only published extensive memoir by a gay survivor.; Minor wear, mainly at corners. Small ballpoint mark on inside rear cover. No other defects. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. text tight, reader's marks. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 120 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Like New. Book appears unread, but may have a publisher's mark or minor shelf wear. We are the Twin Cities' largest independent book store. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alyson Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781555830069ISBN:1555830064
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"Written in the first person, this book describes in vivid detail the horror of day to day life in a Nazi concentration camp. It's one man's eyewitness account of the camps, the death and degradation he faced on a daily basis, and how he clung to his humanity ~ and his life ~ against such unbearable odds.
Most telling ~ though not really very surprising, given the vast power differences between prisoners and their guards ~ was his recollection of camp politics. He managed to survive by taking advantage of a guard whose friendliness toward him turned into sexual interest.
This book is not for the faint of heart. The scenes of horror that play out ~ the executions, the torture ~ are not graphic in their description, but the stark, terse language in which they're conveyed, married with the sense of hopelessness you read between the lines, speak more to the brutality of the Nazis than a thousand descriptive paragraphs ever could.
But this was probably one of the best books I've read on the Holocaust. I wish it were required reading for every person, everywhere, as a testament of the human spirit in adversity and a warning to us all. Perhaps then we could begin to move past our differences to a more peaceful co-existence."
"Horrifying. Simply horrifying is the best way to describe this book. Told by one of the few known homosexual surviors of Nazi concentration camps, and one of the even fewer brave enough to tell his story, this book details Heger's six years in a concentration camp. The abuse--physical, mental, and sexual--is unbelievable. It's traumatic to simply read about his experience and the things that he witnessed. What I found most jaw-dropping is the constant abuse heaped upon the prisoners for being gay, but then most of the abusers are having gay sex at the exact same time (similar to prisons today), but think nothing of it because they are "normal" men. Ugh. Nightmares are certain to result from this reading, but I maintain that it's a very important story to read."
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