The Letters of Franklin K. Lane

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane
Franklin K. Lane
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ASIN: 1404314490

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane : Pesonal and Political
Anne Wintermute ; Wall, Louise Herrick Lane
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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ASIN: B000UXVD7Q

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane Personal and Political
Anne Wintermute and Louise Herrick Wall (edi Lane
Manufacturer: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922
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ASIN: B000O3RXUS

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An unusual kind of autobiogrphy

The letters of Franklin K. Lane, personal and political
Franklin Knight Lane
Manufacturer: Hurst & Blackett
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ASIN: B000881UTE

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An unusual kind of autobiogrphy.......2006-04-02

This book, published in 1922, was compiled by the widow of Franklin K. Lane from letters Secretary Lane wrote during his lifetime (born 15 July 1864 near Charlottetown, Price Edward Island, Canada, died at Rochester, Minn. May 18, 1921). What this amounts to is that if Lane wrote a letter telling of important things in his life it is in this book, but if he wrote no such letter it is not in the book. Yet all in all the book holds one's interest, especially in the letters written in the fianl months of his life. Lane was in Wilson's Cabinet from 1913 till he resigned March 1, 1920, and while he has good things to say about Wilson he also criticizes his failure to accept some mild reservations so the Versailles Treaty would get ratified by the Senate. Lane comes thru as a good man and honest man, who served Wilson and his country well.

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Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal
Anne Lane
Manufacturer: RIVERSIDE PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O5RRPM

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political

Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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ASIN: 1419139355

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political

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ASIN: 0548069751

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political (Dodo Press)

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political (Dodo Press)
Franklin Knight Lane
Manufacturer: Dodo Press
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ASIN: 1406525979

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Franklin Knight Lane (1864-1921) was a Canadian-American Democratic politician. He attended the University of California, Class of 1886, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire he was a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz's Committee of Fifty. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him Secretary of the Interior in 1913 and he served until 1920. The accomplishments of his tenure include the formation of the National Park Service and the move of the Department headquarters from the Patent Office building to its own building. He was interested in the Interior Department's internal welfare and formed the Home Club to promote fellowship and teamwork. Lane died May 18, 1921 in Rochester, Minnesota, and his ashes were scattered over Yosemite. He became better known posthumously by being quoted in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire.

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane; Personal and Political
Anne Wintermute Lane
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GROM6U

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The Letters of Franklin K. Lane Personal and Political

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HMXIOQ

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Phyliss Munday: Mountaineer
Kathryn Bridge
Manufacturer: Xyz Editeur
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ASIN: B000UTZ5H4

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Phyliss Munday: Mountaineer

Manufacturer: Xyz Editeur
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ASIN: B000HUCO2U

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Panel's new Annuities Answer Book is the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource available on both fixed annuities and variable annuities. Thorough analysis is provided of such issues as the different types of annuities, taxation of annuities, loads, using annuities for individual retirement funding, trust funding or estate funding, and other uses of annuities. The Answer Book also provides clear explanations of the regulations governing annuity products such as SEC investment guidelines, ERISA and Department of Labor restrictions, insurance company rules, and key criterion from individual states.

Some of the specific topics covered in the Annuities Answer Book include:

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Jaroslav

Meissen Porcelain Identification And Value Guide
Jim Harran , and Susan Harran
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1574324748

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Meissen porcelain is eagerly collected throughout the world and traded vigorously at antique shows, auctions, and on the Internet. Of the few books available on this beautiful German porcelain, none includes current market valuesbut Jim and Susan Harrans new Meissen Porcelain does! The authors of the bestselling three-volume series, Collectible Cups Saucers, and another volume, Dresden Porcelain Studios, have produced a book that features everyday items available in the marketplace, not the eighteenth century museum pieces found in many Meissen books. The majority of pieces featured date from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s. More than 625 color photographs are included, along with a helpful marks section. Meissen Porcelain provides historical information about the beautiful city of Meissen and a brief history of the Meissen manufactory itself, as well as discussions on decorating motifs and how Meissen porcelain is made. The book includes chapters on decorative porcelain, flower painting, Oriental motifs, Meissens famous Blue Onion pattern, figures, copycats, and useful information for the collector.

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Jaroslav.......2007-01-09

This book is very applicable for the dealers of the porcelain especially for Meissen porcelain.This book describes the products of Meissen in general only.For the practicians or the collectors there is recommended another kind of the book.The prices aren't too reals,it depend of the market demand.For the specification correct I recommend to look for the book "Meissen figuren",where you can find completely whole production of the figures(I hope that's truth)

MEISSEN PORCELAIN: IDENTIFICATION AND VALUE GUIDE

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MEISSEN PORCELAIN: IDENTIFICATION AND VALUE GUIDE
Jim and Susan Harran
Manufacturer: Collector Books Paducah, KY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MES9S4

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Beautiful,informative book!

Boutique style projects

Off & Running

I Went to the Fair & Decided...I Can Do Better Than That!

Great way to get started!

Mosaics in an afternoon (In An Afternoon)
Connie Sheerin
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0806958030

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Bright and cheerful, the designs of Connie Sheerin feature mixed-media mosaics applied to flea-market finds or wooden bases. With a colorful array of glass and mirror pieces, tiles, marbles, broken pottery, seashells, and buttons, she covers frames, flowerpots, lamps, tables, shelves, bookends, chairs, clocks, and boxes. The pictures are clear and the directions good, and patterns are included wherever necessary. Most projects are fairly easy, although the three objects on hand-cut bases (a large frame and two backsplashes) will require some practice with the scroll saw. A number of projects are given a unique look through the use of plaster shapes cast in small plaster or candy molds and then painted; thus the mosaic pattern on a shelf displaying a teapot collection incorporates little teapots and cups, or a frame for the kitchen is adorned with miniature veggies. Sheerin also thoughtfully offers guidelines on two important concepts not always covered in other books on the subject: how to estimate the amount of mosaic materials needed for your own projects (quantities are already given for the ones in the book), and how to transfer designs. --Amy Handy

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“Turn broken china, colored glass or mosaic tiles into works of art for your home. Explanations are simple and beginners will get results that look so good your friends will never guess how easy the projects were to do unless—you share this book.”—Quick & Easy Crafts.

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Beautiful,informative book!.......2002-07-23

I just received this wonderful book today,and after looking through it,I cannot wait to begin this hobby I have always wanted to try.Everything about this book tells me that I will be having a lot of fun with mosaics.The instructions are well-written and non-intimidating;the colorful photos of various completed projects are gorgeous;and the design patterns included,along with a completely thorough list of what supplies are needed for each project, will be a huge help in taking my first steps.I'll be getting my supplies first thing tomorrow.Can't wait!!

Boutique style projects.......2002-04-28

Connie Sheerin's particular artistic style shows through in these projects which for the most part have a gift-shop, feminine, country-home look. They are very pretty, with other materials besides tiles incorporated into her pieces. Dressing up her pots, vases, pitchers, frames, shelves, etc., are marble "jewels", shells, dried flowers, and painted plaster figurines such as angels, fruits and vegetables. These give her creations a look distinctive from other mosaic books, and require different steps to complete, in particular preparing the figurines for use. There are also a few very nice projects, such as backsplashes, that rely solely on tiles.

There is no preparatory instruction on how to cut tiles, so it is assumed you already know how to use your cutting tools. However, these projects do not focus on cut tiles. Many of them use the objects mentioned above with pre-cut square and round tiles, and many broken pieces of plates, glass, and tiles.

The author's work is very professional and the projects are lovely. I especially like the frame of broken glass, but my taste for a classic mosaic look with more traditional tile designs, leads me to rely more on other mosaic books for inspiration.

Off & Running.......2001-07-30

Just received this book & have already started on my first project. Great book for the beginner like myself as it providesd me with a detailed list of supplies to to have on hand before I started on a project. Easy to follow instructions & pictures.

I Went to the Fair & Decided...I Can Do Better Than That!.......2001-06-18

When we lived in Miami in the '70's, I decided to take up stained glass as a hobby. The community college offered wonderful courses taught by professionals at rock bottom prices.

I'd draw my patterns and cut my glass pieces and come to class. My instructors would look at my designs and proceed to tell me how I would have to cut this or that piece into sections. "Why," I would ask? "Because you'll never be able to cut a long curving piece of glass in one piece," they'd say. "I did," I'd say. I would then show them several pieces of long curved pieces I had cut. After several weeks of repeated encounters of this nature, I stopped going to class.

I'm not a know it all. I am a why person. Connie Sheerin clearly explains why. She assumes you know nothing about the terms needed to purchase mosaic supplies. She carefully explains what everything is in a brief matter of fact manner. She provides pictures of everything she's explaining in case you're a "picture is worth a thousand words" person. She doesn't talk to you like the village is missing its idiot. She just starts at the beginning so that she can build on this firm foundation.

1. You learn how to estimate supplies needed when working with one media or mixed media.

2. You learn how to attach mosaic to different types of surfaces whether they are porous or nonporous.

3. The different adhesives to use if your work will be indoors/outdoors, vertical/horizontal/flat/curved, and grouted or non-grouted.

After you've read this book and practiced on some pretty inexpensive craft projects, the only limit will be your imagination and your pocket book.

The only glaring fault of this book for a beginner is that I believe she doesn't spend enough time teaching you how to cut the tile or glass. I have some knowledge and I had questions on designs I'd seen at the fair. So many of her designs were simply not to my taste; however, I believe that's purely subjective.

Great way to get started!.......2000-11-18

The instructions in this book are excellent. I wanted to try various types of mosaics and purchased several books. This book gave me the confidence to complete my first projects. Now I have some wonderful homemade gifts to give at Christmas.

Paper Mosaics in an afternoon (In An Afternoon)

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Easy artist

Paper Mosaics in an afternoon (In An Afternoon)
Marie Browning
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 1402724438

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The latest entry in the popular In an Afternoon® series focuses on quick and easy techniques for paper mosaics-a simpler method than the tile and glass versions, but equally attractive. Written by highly regarded author Marie Browning, it's sure to become the next Afternoon success. Here is everything you need to get started: information on supplies and tools, including the different kinds of available paper, trimmers, backings, and coatings; how-to instructions on the basic techniques (cutting to size, assembling the pieces); numerous photographs; and projects-such as a Poker Box and Marbled Oval Tray-designed to build skills even as they inspire.
A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

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Easy artist.......2007-02-23

This is a good book for people interested in moving into new realms of artistic expression. The materials are inexpensive and easily obtained Love the book.

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For more than a hundred years, archaeologists have worked in the Southwest attempting to learn more about the Anasazi, now called Ancient Ones, who once lived in the massive stone buildings at such places as Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, and Navajo National Monument. In ARCHITECTURE OF THE ANCIENT ONES, photographer Val Brinkerhoff takes us on a quiet walk among the visually stunning ruins left behind, through which much has been learned about the Ancient Ones of 800 years ago. These archaelogical treasures are places of great presence, power, and peace. Featuring unique juxtapositions of hand-hewn stone nestled admist unusual rock forms in the American Southwest desert landscape, these ancient Native American dwelling sites are places of refuge for modern-day man.

The Art and Architecture of Islam: Volume One: 650-1250 (Hist of Art)

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Islamic Art

The Art and Architecture of Islam: Volume One: 650-1250 (Hist of Art)
Richard Ettinghausen , and Oleg Grabar
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ASIN: 0140561595

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This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar's original text, this book has been completely rewritten and updated, and many new illustrations have been added.

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Islamic Art.......2007-08-27

This book contains the 'nut shell' of Islamic Art and Architecture. There are some plans, and many color photographs. Each project is accompanied by text explaining it and it's cultural significance. For someone who has an interest in the geometries and forms of Islamic Art this book was worth it.

The One and Its Relation to Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on Selected Texts (Philosophia Antiqua, Vol 49)

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The One and Its Relation to Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on Selected Texts (Philosophia Antiqua, Vol 49)
John Bussanich , and John Bussancih
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An album of 39 fine lithographs comprising a suite of 24 European architectural views (mostly interior and of ancient churches) and another of 15 European ... Verona and one each of the Rhine and Bologna

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A fast-tempo autobiography that spans seminal moments in the history of jazz, Los Angeles, and the black experience in America.

Until recently, the West Coast jazz scene occupied an unjustifiably obscure place in jazz history. Yet, in the heyday of jazz, the Los Angeles Central Avenue scene was a mecca for Hollywood stars and other jazz buffs who wanted to hear the music of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, and Chico Hamilton. The Central Avenue Sounds Research Project at UCLA has done much to ensure that Central Avenue is recognized, along with Harlem and New Orleans, as the birthplace of jazz.

Buddy Collette - a key figure in American jazz since the early 1940's - is unusual in that, while based on the West Coast, he won a truly international following. Collette worked closely with Mingus, went on to join the Chico Hamilton Quartet, and later played with Thelonious Monk and Gil Evans. He has run his own quartet for thirty years while also writing, arranging, and playing film scores.

In Jazz Generations, Collette recounts his close friendships with other jazz greats and gives brief but illuminating portraits of Parker, Paul Robeson, and Frank Sinatra. He also shares an insider's look at the world of the studio musician - particularly his years on the "Groucho Marx Show" - and gives important accounts of the racial integration of the musicians' union and of the Watts riots in the 1960's.

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Debunking Anti-Polish Holocaust Myths, With Reference to the German Nazi Death Camps.......2007-04-05

Samuel Willenberg is one of the few Jews who escaped from the Treblinka death camp. He provides gruesome details of what took place there. About 870,000 Jews were gassed or shot. The bodies were buried, and eventually re-exhumed and burned, up to 18,000 at a time, in massive open-air pyres. The book includes a sketch map of the Treblinka death camp, and even a photograph of German earthmoving equipment used to unearth the earlier-buried bodies.

When he was first deported to Treblinka, Willenberg heard remarks from Poles about "getting turned into soap" (p. 39). He neglects to mention the fact that Poles also used such remarks in reference to themselves (as later Jews did to each other). (It subsequently turned out that this was largely apocryphal. There was, however, a factory in Danzig (present-day Gdansk) in which Germans did use the bodies of mostly Poles to make soap.)

After the Jewish revolt and escape from Treblinka, the Germans' hunt was so intense that two of the Poles who helped Willenberg had already experienced a German search of their domiciles (p. 144, 147). He noticed how Germans were checking all traffic on the roads (p. 145), and also encountered a poster that warned Poles against helping any of the "typhus-bearing Jewish bandits" (p. 149). Some Poles approached by Willenberg for help were obviously so frightened that they immediately departed from him (p. 25, 28, 144). But, in spite of the death penalty for the slightest Polish assistance to Jews, local Polish peasants helped Willenberg on no less than nine separate occasions in the first days after his escape (pp. 143-on).

In time, Willenberg became a member of the AL, whose Communist nature he denied (p. 181) and, for awhile, the AK. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising, repeated accusations of the NSZ killing fugitive Jews (p. 178), and then said the same thing about the AK. Interestingly, Willenberg reports a discussion with an AK officer, who produced a list of Jewish Gestapo informers about to be liquidated, and with Willenberg on the list! The list had been found in possession of a Jew who was accused of being a Gestapo agent, based on the fact that he had been caught living with a German woman (pp. 182-183). Taken literally, this suggests that at least some cases of the AK killing innocent fugitive Jews was due to faulty intelligence. (Of course, with regards to wartime espionage, underground organizations don't have the luxury of conducting detailed investigations, and some innocent people get killed because of mistaken inferences). However, the very fact that Willenberg became an openly-Jewish member of the AK, and was allowed to survive a face-to-face accusation of an AK officer, alone should soundly refute the accusation of some (e. g., Yaffa Eliach, Oskar Pinkus) that the AK was implementing some sort of secret plan to kill all remaining Polish Jews!

One particularly malicious Polonophobic Holocaust myth is the one about the Nazis' choice of Poland as the site of the death camps because Poles welcomed them or at least wouldn't object much to them. No doubt, this libelous canard is facilitated by the countless misleading accounts in the western press of "Polish death camps". Ironically, not only didn't the Germans seek any form of "permission" from the conquered and despised Polish untermenschen, but actually kept the death camps a jealously-guarded secret. So extreme was this secrecy that a German woman who had inadvertently been shipped to Treblinka was deliberately killed in order to protect the secret of extermination (p. 30). And to add plausibility to the fraud about Jews only being resettled for forced labor, and Treblinka only being a labor camp, the Nazis actually HAD built a nearby labor camp, Treblinka 1, to which they had been sending Poles and later some of the deported Jews (p. 9, 101, 202). Periodically, Treblinka 1 inmates were dispatched to the Treblinka death camp, but never the other way around!

Certain authors (e. g., Yisrael Gutman, David Engel) have accused the Polish government-in-exile of delaying, and then understating, its reporting on the numbers of murdered Polish Jews. In his introduction, Bartoszewski puts Willenberg's experience in perspective, making it clear that only a trickle of substantive information ever escaped those extermination camps in which Polish Jews were being murdered: "Together the four death camps exterminated over 2 million Jews; we know of only two survivors from Belzec, three from Chelmno, sixty-four from Sobibor, and around forty from Treblinka." (p. 9). Even the indirect clue afforded by the odor of vast numbers of bodies being burned at Treblinka did not become reality until early 1943 (p. 17). In stark contrast to the Jews, Germans usually murdered Poles publicly. So why invoke nefarious motives to explain the fact that the Polish government-in-exile knew much more about the extent of Polish deaths than Jewish ones, and did so much earlier?

Another anti-Polish canard is the one about Germans choosing Poland as the site of the death camps so that they could conveniently recruit numerous Polish volunteers to assist in the extermination of Jews. In actuality, Willenberg doesn't mention even ONE Polish collaborator serving the Germans at Treblinka! He elaborates on the work of Ukrainian collaborators numerous times, describing them as follows: "While they disliked Poles, White Russians, and Cossacks, they reserved a sizzling, boundless hatred for the Jews." (p. 56).

an honest and blunt look at life in the treblinka extermination camp.......2007-02-16

One of the great Treblinka stories, though there have been relatively few unfortanetly, this one ranks right up there with Richard Glazar's book "Trap With A Green Fence", referring to the fences that were fitted with pines and shrubs so no one could see in or out of the camp, even being used to camoflauge sections of the camp from each other. A very detailed book, it was written right after the war so the facts had to still be fresh in his mind. The book is a hard one to read but also interesting, even psycologically, as many great books are from this era of the holocaust. But everyone knows Auschwitz, and terrible that place was. But life in Treblinka was a bit different from many other camps. Many prisoners wore fashionable clothes,taken from the sorting piles of those who had been killed in the camp's diesel engine gas chambers, a far cry from the Zyclon B which was to be used extensively at camps like Auschwitz and Majdanek, not the striped pajamas that many have seen in archival footage from concentration camps. Treblinka extermination camp was a world unto itself. The tales of SS men like Kurt Franz, Kuttner, Miete,Mentz, and Hirthreiter, among a few others, are spine chilling and just udderly sadistic. All in all, you need to read this book, even if you arent totally familiar with Nazi camps. But these extermination camps, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, they were much different from any other camp in occupied Europe during WW2. Read this book!

Treblinka Death Camp. A Survivor Speaks. Essential reading........2002-12-19

An exceptional account of the Nazi death camp at Treblinka.

When one visits Treblinka today, it is difficult to imagine the atrocities and slaughter depicted in this excellent book. My own personal visit to Treblinka was on a Summer's day when the sky was blue and the birds were singing. The lasting impression left on me was one of utter isolation, emptiness and an absolute thunderous silence surrounding me.

Gone are the buildings and gas chambers, long destroyed by the Nazis in their attempt to extinguish any memory or evidence of the genocide that was perpetrated here. Apart from the symbolic cemetery and memorials and the remains of the railway station where the innocent Jews were disembarked prior to their massacre only minutes later, there is little to see apart from the location of the mass graves and the vast empty space amongst the surrounding trees where the Nazi extermination camp once stood.

Each individual stone memorial at the site representing one Jewish community whose members perished at Treblinka. Photographs, diagrams and maps are provided which afford a valuable context and framework to assist in the readers' understanding.

It is fitting therefore that Samuel Willenberg, one of the very few survivors of the Treblinka holocaust, has been able to provide us with his harrowing account of what actually went on there. The vast open spaces that I personally saw are here filled with maps and detailed descriptions of the hell erased by the Nazi genocide machine that killed so many innocent Jews. The procedures at this death camp from the moment that the innocents arrived at the still visible railway platform are documented in detail, until their wholesale slaughter in the gas chambers and the burning of their bodies in the burial pits not so far away.

This moving account of the functioning of the Treblinka death camp not only speaks out for those whose lives were destroyed and who cannot speak for themselves, but it also covers the heartbreaking daily lives of those prisoners who were forced to function as vital cogs in the Nazi death machine. Further to this we have a commendable account of the uprising against the Nazis amongst these prisoners, many of whom were also killed. Very few in fact survived to escape. One of those who did survive, escape and manage to bring this moving account to our attention was Samuel Willenberg.

The author's memoirs of Treblinka extend from October 1942 until the rebellion and his escape in August 1943, when he went into hiding in Warsaw and took an active personal part in the armed Polish underground resistance against the Nazis until the quelling of the Warsaw Uprising.

This is a must read on this particular section of the Holocaust. Of some interest is the portrayal of the underlying Polish-Jewish relations during the Nazi occupation. This is a story that will chill you to the bone.

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