This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germany’s World War II prison camps. In this spare, compelling memoir of a year during which he and the world he knew descended into hell, he recounts his battle to survive— physically, emotionally, and morally.
Here is a review from Le Figaro :
"With the utmost delicacy, Jean-Pierre Renouard unveils a fascinating world. . . . If he [Renouard] sometimes sketches a wry smile, his testimony is no less poignant. He tells a banal case of trafficking in petrol cans filled with soup, the story of a Russian who eats a live mouse, a passing German who offers his gloves on the sly to the author to protect his bloody hands—each story is exemplary. And it is also a hopeful book because it demonstrates how in an impossible situation, people in distress still feel the will to survive that goes beyond ordinary resistance. Although the author is discreet about the problem of faith, it can be glimpsed throughout this magnificent testimony."
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