Bialystok to Birkenau : the Holocaust journey of Michel Mielnicki
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Bialystok to Birkenau : the Holocaust journey of Michel Mielnicki
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318092/0957
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10917
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Vancouver, Canada
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Ronsdale Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2000
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]247p.,index
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780921870777
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Mielnicki tells his story with great courage and attention to truthful detail. In his home town of Wasilkow, Poland, he describes how pogroms, which began as small acts of anti-Semitism, led to mass murders and expulsions. Poland from September 1939 to June 1941. Mielnicki's account of life in the camps of Birkenau, Buna, Mittelbau-Dora and Belsen is at times harrowing, but the personal qualities that helped him to survive when all human dignity had apparently been erased creates a powerfully redeeming human drama.