The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda

by Bill Niven and William Niven

Book Overview

The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany.

At the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, communist prisoners organized resistance against the SS and even planned an uprising. They helped rescue a three-year-old Jewish boy, Stefan Jerzy Zweig, from certain death in the gas chambers. After the war, his story became a focus for the German Democratic Republic's celebration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134042
• ISBN13: 9781571134042
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"