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title: "The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps Reprint Edition"
brand: "terrence des pres"
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# The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps Reprint Edition

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- **What is this?** The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps Reprint Edition by terrence des pres
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## Customer Reviews

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    Survivors lived by maintaining their moral sensibilities
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2018*

A close and penetrating look at how the survivors of the Nazi and Stalinist death camps came through such horror in human ways.  Des Pres explodes the myths about the Jews going to their deaths “like sheep;” of survivors saving their own lives by becoming amoral; of those who lived suffering from “survivor’s guilt.”  Rather, says Des Pres, survivors felt an obligation to the dead to bear witness; survivors lived by maintaining their moral sensibilities and by cooperating with one another and sharing in each other’s tribulations and successes; to survive in the conditions of extremity found in the death camps was, in itself, an act of resistance.  Humans are social by nature of their very biology, says Des Pres, and this is perhaps our main hope in this era. His depiction of survivor as “hero” (in contrast to the numerous dead heroes of Western literature) has influenced me from the time I first read this book in the mid-1990s.

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    The single best work on the death camps I have ever read.
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015*

This is the single best work on the death camps in Germany and the labor camps in the USSR that I have ever read.  The descriptions of camp life are as harrowing as anything found elsewhere, but the clincher for me are the reflections on the implications of survival of the camp experience for an understanding of human nature.  One strips a human being of possessions, citizenship, friends, family, and even identity, and place that into as random and raw an environment that human beings can fashion: what can one be looking at but an unadorned soul?  The book profoundly changed me, as it has others.  It is a classic, perhaps even more important than Frankl's *Man's Search for Meaning*.  Sadly, we will have to augment this book with descriptions of camps in North Korea and other places someday.  But this book will help us to understand those experiences, too, a fact that only adds to the book's importance.

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*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2022*

Be prepared for some incredible testimony from survivors.  Makes you appreciate the small things in life.

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