| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"In an unusual but compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp, weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from occupied Europe. One, a fictionalized memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and mother, supplemented by historical research. The result is both personal and provocative, involving as it does issues of history and memory, fiction and "truth," courage and resignation. This is not a "Holocaust memoir." The Schrags were Jews, and Otto was interned, under execrable conditions, in southern France. But Otto, with the help of a heroic wife, escaped the camp before the start of massive transfers of prisoners "to the East," and Peter and his mother escaped from Belgium before the Jews were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Still, the danger and suffering, the comradeship and betrayal, the naïve hopes and cynical despair of those in prison and those in peril are everywhere in evidence"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; · Introduction; · A Brief Chronology of Background Events; 1 The End of the Great Illusion; 2 The Forty and Eights; 3 La Panne, Dunkirk, and Beyond; 4 Le Vigeant; 5 Another Cattle Train; 6 Boulogne; 7 Saint-Cyprien; 8 The Larousse; 9 "There's a Letter from Papa"; 10 Les Martys; 11 Cavallo's Bus; 12 Brussels Encore; 13 The Paper Chase in Marseille; 14 Across the Bloodied Spanish Earth; 15 Lisbon, Where the Lights Are On; 16 Crossing the Lines Again; · Epilogue; · Sources and Acknowledgments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Schrag, Otto, 1902-1971.
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Schrag, Otto, 1902-1971. |
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Schrag, Peter.
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Schrag, Peter. |
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Personal narratives.
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Germany. |
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Holocaust survivors -- Germany -- Biography.
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Holocaust survivors. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
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Personal narratives.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Author |
Schrag, Peter, co-author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schrag, Otto, 1902-1971. When Europe was a prison camp 9780253017697 (DLC) 2015003845 (OCoLC)902599884 |
| ISBN |
9780253017857 (electronic book) |
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0253017858 (electronic book) |
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9780253017697 |
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0253017696 |
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