Volume 4, Number 5 · April 8, 1965
After the Final Solution
By Neal Ascherson
The House of Ashes
by Oscar Pinkus
World, 243 pp., $4.95
The Holocaust Kingdom
by Alexander Donat
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 361 pp., $5.95
These books describe the experiences of two Polish Jews under the Nazi occupation. Both are written by men of unusual intelligence and literary skill; both of them contribute to our understanding of what was possible for the Jews—resistance or self-abandonment—when the first tales came home from the destination of the long trains. The Pinkus book is concerned with the fate of the Jews in Losice and the small towns around, in the relatively remote land of Podlasie to the east of Warsaw; The Hotocaust Kingdom is about the Warsaw ghetto and the rising of the Jews in the capital, and about the camps' which followed.
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