Treblinka

By Jean-François Steiner

Book Overview

The inspiring true story of the 600 Jews who revolted against their captors and burned a Nazi death camp to the ground. Nearly a million Jews were consumed by the ovens of Treblinka before August 2, 1943. On that day 600 prisoners armed with stolen guns and grenades attacked the Nazi guards, burned the camp, and fled into the nearby Polish forests. Of these, forty survived to bear witness to man's courage in the face of the greatest evil human history has produced. " Treblinka is a tale, not of defeat, but of triumph; not of extermination, but of vindication and transcendence...an answer to the Sabras' unbearable, ferocious, and unforgiving question to their elders: how could it have happened? How could the Jews of Europe have gone to their slaughter like six million lambs?"-- New York Book Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452011248
• ISBN13: 9780452011243
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Psychotic, results of an overly meticulous system.

I was required to read Treblinka by Proffesor Schonfeld at the University of California at Irvine. I have read a lot of literature on the Holocaust and yet am always amazed by it. This book takes it a step farther in understanding the meticuous perfection the Germans sought in exterminating a whole race of people. It is a book of triamph, but also shows in great detail how the German intentions could never be fulfilled because of a driving natural force within all of mankind to continue living. Not to live as individuals, but to fight in order to continue a whole lineage of people. It is beautifuly written and extremelly enlightening. I Thank Professor Schonfeld for requiring it, and you will thank me for reccomending it. Tricia Taft