The Boy: A Holocaust Story

Posted on November 24, 2010 | Comments Off on The Boy: A Holocaust Story

WarsawAn iconic photograph of World War II, a Jewish boy and other children and their mothers and fathers threatened by the heroic Nazis, subject of a new book: As the prologue says, it is “a picture worth one thousand words and six million names.”

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0 responses to “The Boy: A Holocaust Story”

  1. David All's avatar David All | November 24, 2010 at 6:33 pm |

    Both of those books sound very moving, Dick. The story of Rivkah Trapkovits, in particular is an incredible one. Do not know if I can take the pictures of all those Jewish children who were deported to the Death Camps.

    It is ironic that the need of the Nazis to document every atrocity they committed as some sort of heroic deed helped to send so many of the bastards to the gallows. Doubly ironic that Blosche was caught, tried and executed by Communist East Germany. Had Blosche been in West Germany, which had abolished the death penalty, the heavist sentence he could have gotten was life imprisonment.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | November 24, 2010 at 7:42 pm |

    I downloaded the Kindle free sample of the Boy book. It didn’t convince me to buy it.

    Author is hampered by not knowing who the boy was—despite multiple people claiming to be him or be related to him—so he starts the book with this lengthy tale of one of Nazis and his unhappy childhood. I couldn’t care less about the Nazi murderers.

    The review isn’t that good, either. I just thought it interesting that there finally is a book about the picture—other than the one the Nazis put together about all the pictures. They were bureaucrats at heart, keeping meticulous records of their own crimes.