Volume 27, Number 10 · June 12, 1980
Survivors
By Neal Ascherson
The House on Prague Street
by Hana Demetz
St. Martin's Press, 192 pp., $8.95 (to be published July 25)
The Missing Years
by Walter Laqueur
Little, Brown, 281 pp., $10.95
The Half Jew
by Robert Beauvais, translated by Harold J. Salemson
Taplinger, 262 pp., $9.95
The Lead Soldiers
by Uri Orlev, translated by Hillel Halkin
Taplinger, 234 pp., $9.95
No. 12 Kaiserhofstrasse
by Valentin Senger, translated by Ralph Manheim
Dutton, 238 pp., $10.95
Of Blood and Hope
by Samuel Pisar
Little, Brown, 311 pp., $12.95
A year ago I was at Auschwitz, waiting for the Pope. It was a day of pitiless heat. The Polish crowds poured into the vast Birkenau enclosures hour after hour, buying Catholic souvenirs, memorial postcards, soft drinks, and chocolate from the stalls set up along the way. In the temporary press enclosure by the main gate, a tent housed a 'cocktail bar.' The Papal dais stood astride the blackened rails which lead to the ramp, the gas chambers, and the crematoria.
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