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February 13, 2006
The Dentist of Auschwitz
Looking for a good read?
The book, The Dentist of Auschwitz, is available in the library at call number D 804.3 .J321 1995. It is also available online, with free fulltext.
The Dentisty of Auschwitz, by Benjamin Jacobs: http://www.nizkor.org/features/dentist/
The book begins:
"On the morning of May 5, 1941, three ancient trucks labored along a Polish country road, carrying 167 Jews from Dobra, a village in the Warthegau region of Poland, to a destination known only to their captors. It was spring, but the fields, which were full of colorful budding flowers, seemed lifeless on that gloomy morning. The songbirds, whose melodies usually filled the country air in May, were strangely quiet.
This was a dark day in our village. The Jewish Council, by decree of Herr Schweikert, the Nazi governor of the region, had delivered for deportation to a labor camp all Jewish men between the ages of sixteen and sixty, with the exception of one male per family. My father wanted to leave, and I volunteered to go with him, since my older brother was susceptible to ailments. So my brother stayed with my mother and my sister in the ghetto. My father and I were each allowed to take two bundles. My mother insisted that I take the few dental tools I had from my first year of dental training, along with my necessities. Little did I know then that those tools would save my life."
Posted by pfa at February 13, 2006 03:25 PM