The Last Ones of Auschwitz: Encounters with Auschwitz Survivors - Paperback

by Leslie Gelrubin Benitah (Author), Sophie Nahum (Author)

As the last Holocaust survivors fade from our world, their stories have never felt more urgent to hear.

Ten years ago Sophie created the documentary series " The Last Ones ", Leslie joined a few years later. The idea was simple: to visit survivors in their own homes, in familiar surroundings, and let them speak freely - over a slice of cheesecake or a piece of lekach - about their childhood, the war, the arrest, the deportation, and survival in the camps. But also about what came after: the disbelief and hostility that often awaited them, the painful return to life, the question of love, of children, of sleepless nights, of memory and transmission - and of the haunting failure of "Never Again." In this powerful collection of voices, twenty five of the very last survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau come together to form a portrait not of life after Auschwitz, but of life with Auschwitz - as they themselves say.