FOR THE HEARING OF THE TALE, FOR THE FUTURE OF THE WISH
RESISTANCE IN NAZI CONCENTRATION
CAMPS by HILDA MEERS
Against the humiliation and despair designed
by an arrogant system and its corrupted administrators,
rose the indomitable spirit of those at the very edge
of what it is possible for human beings to endure. Of
many nations and faiths, whether notable or ordinary,
overcoming differences of nationality and political
attitudes, they joined together, hands, minds, strengths,
weaknesses, all: to create chinks of free thought, sing
songs, strive for life - these men and women, dying
or surviving, are worthy of our remembrance, their stories
relevant to the way each of us lives life now 'For the
Hearing of the Tale, For the Future of the Wish' creatively
combines fictional characters who present true stories,
first that of a jailed journalist's political opposition
during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Highlights from German history - post-1918, the Weimar
period, the rise of Nazism, illumine the dark background
of the period, setting the scene for accounts of organised
resistance, highly secret, undertaken by the diverse
occupants of the many concentration camps. For not all
of those who died in the gas chambers went there 'like
lambs to the slaughter; wherever possible determined
men and women blew up crematoria, sabotaged work vital
for the German war machine (including damaging V1 and
V2 rockets), escaped to join partisan groups or to bring
out evidence proving to the world what was happening
in the camps.
Above all they organised to save many fellow-prisoners'
lives - astounding escapes, brilliant technicians, daring
and self-sacrifice - this book relates many little-known
tales, compiled from archival sources, memoirs, diaries.
While in this account the narrators Mr Julius and Arthur
Milne, also Jane, Simon, his Uncle and his Grandfather
are invented characters, all other persons and events
are drawn from historical sources (referred to in the
text where appropriate and acknowledged in the Bibliography).
ISBN 1 898941 77 7 Price £9.99
Paperback size 245 x 170mm 114 pages
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