Nightmares
Memoirs of the Years of Horror under Nazi Rule in Europe, 1939-1945

Paper $24.95   |   ISBN 0-8156-0706-7   |   2003

A memoir by an award-winning author in its first English translation.

Description
When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son, and an aspiring poet. For the next seven years he witnessed the Holocaust as it destroyed his family, his country, and his culture. In this astonishing story of suffering and survival, he gives his own personal account of the Warsaw ghetto, the death chambers at Auschwitz, the transport trains, the slave labor camps of Dachau, and the liberation. And from the perspective of the renowned journalist he later became, he also describes how the Holocaust was carried out, not only at the level of governments and their armies, but at the level of the individuals who took its orders. Few people survived the Holocaust from such close range or for so long, and few remembered it with the eye of a practiced journalist.

Author
Konrad Charmatz, a Yiddish newspaper editor after the war, was awarded the 1985 literary prize of the World Federation of Jewish Partisans and Holocaust Survivors for this book.

Translated from the Yiddish by Miriam Dashkin Beckerman

61/8 x 91/4, 256 pages, glossary