Detailed item info | Size | | Length: | 224 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.8 in. | | Thickness: | 1.0 in. | | Weight: | 20.0 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | In a heartwarming scene in SCHINDLER'S LIST, viewers the world over witnessed the miracle of two Jews in the Plaszow concentration camp being married clandestinely. The two were Joseph and Rebecca Bau. Available for the first time in English, this is Joseph's reckoning of a time of horrors, but also of beauty and wonder. 50 drawings by Joseph Bau.
| | Industry reviews | Available for the first time in English, Bau's emotional memoir recounts the love story depicted so movingly in the film Schindler's List. Bau fell in love with and married Rebecca Tannenbaum in the Pl/asz?w concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Anxious to save her husband at whatever cost, Rebecca placed Joseph's name on the list of Jews that Oskar Schindler would be allowed to take with him to his new factory in Brinnlitz, Czechoslovakia. She herself was sent to Auschwitz, where she was selected for the gas chamber three times but each time managed to elude death. Amazingly, both survived the Holocaust. Although Bau lost both parents in the camps and a brother in the Krak?w ghetto, he and his wife were miraculously reunited after the war. They emigrated to Israel, where he became a well-known animator and graphic artist. Here, Bau uses drawings, poems, and stories to tell the tale. Also of special interest is his account of the trial in Vienna of SS guard Franz Gruen, at which both he and his wife were called to testify. Sensitive and highly readable, this is an important addition to the literature of the Holocaust. Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., Livingston, NJ
Kakutani
Bau, an Israeli artist and animator, met his future wife, Rebecca, in the German concentration camp of Plasz?w, on the outskirts of Krak?w, Poland, where they married in secrecy a scene depicted in the film Schindler's List. His searing, powerful Holocaust memoir, illustrated with his nimble black-and-white documentary drawings, will move readers especially deeply for his account is also a testament to the resilient human spirit. Rebecca, allowed to add one name to the list of Jewish slave laborers whom Oscar Schindler would take with him to his factory in Czechoslovakia, added Joseph's name instead of her own. She was sent to Auschwitz, where she survived, and the couple was reunited after the war. Bau's parents, deported with him to Plasz?w from Krak?w's Jewish ghetto, were not so fortunate. His father was murdered in Plasz?w by an SS officer (against whom Bau testified in Vienna in 1971), and his mother perished in Bergen-Belsen. Both in the early chapters describing his harrowing escapes in the German-occupied Krak?w ghetto and in his re-creation of the hell of the camps, Bau combines an understated tone, quiet irony and a pointed existential questioning of the God he feels abandoned his people. (July)
Bukey
Bau, an Israeli artist and animator, met his future wife, Rebecca, in the German concentration camp of Plasz¢w, on the outskirts of Krak¢w, Poland, where they married in secrecy a scene depicted in the film Schindler's List. His searing, powerful Holocaust memoir, illustrated with his nimble black-and-white documentary drawings, will move readers especially deeply for his account is also a testament to the resilient human spirit. Rebecca, allowed to add one name to the list of Jewish slave laborers whom Oscar Schindler would take with him to his factory in Czechoslovakia, added Joseph's name instead of her own. She was sent to Auschwitz, where she survived, and the couple was reunited after the war. Bau's parents, deported with him to Plasz¢w from Krak¢w's Jewish ghetto, were not so fortunate. His father was murdered in Plasz¢w by an SS officer (against whom Bau testified in Vienna in 1971), and his mother perished in Bergen-Belsen. Both in the early chapters describing his harrowing escapes in the German-occupied Krak¢w ghetto and in his re-creation of the hell of the camps, Bau combines an understated tone, quiet irony and a pointed existential questioning of the God he feels abandoned his people. (July)
Publishers Weekly (06/08/1998)
Available for the first time in English, Bau's emotional memoir recounts the love story depicted so movingly in the film Schindler's List. Bau fell in love with and married Rebecca Tannenbaum in the Pl/asz¢w concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Anxious to save her husband at whatever cost, Rebecca placed Joseph's name on the list of Jews that Oskar Schindler would be allowed to take with him to his new factory in Brinnlitz, Czechoslovakia. She herself was sent to Auschwitz, where she was selected for the gas chamber three times but each time managed to elude death. Amazingly, both survived the Holocaust. Although Bau lost both parents in the camps and a brother in the Krak¢w ghetto, he and his wife were miraculously reunited after the war. They emigrated to Israel, where he became a well-known animator and graphic artist. Here, Bau uses drawings, poems, and stories to tell the tale. Also of special interest is his account of the trial in Vienna of SS guard Franz Gruen, at which both he and his wife were called to testify. Sensitive and highly readable, this is an important addition to the literature of the Holocaust. Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., Livingston, NJ
Library Journal (08/01/1998)
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