The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Paperback
Helpful Score: 6
I really liked this book. I nearly quit reading after 50 pages due the run on sentences and excessive use of punctuation. Some sentences are more than half a page in length and I found them difficult to read. Commas, dashes and parentheses are liberally used. I kept reading though because the premise had caught my interest.
Mendolsohn wrote the book after searching for his relatives killed during the holocaust. Because all of his family that stayed in Poland during WW2 were killed, he interviews other survivors from the same town, Bolechow. His search is to learn how and when they were killed and to learn something about their lives. All of the survivors he meets have their own memories and story to tell. You can tell how emotionally involved the author became during the search for his relatives. I would have preferred some editing :-)
Mendolsohn wrote the book after searching for his relatives killed during the holocaust. Because all of his family that stayed in Poland during WW2 were killed, he interviews other survivors from the same town, Bolechow. His search is to learn how and when they were killed and to learn something about their lives. All of the survivors he meets have their own memories and story to tell. You can tell how emotionally involved the author became during the search for his relatives. I would have preferred some editing :-)
