Roman's journey (dedikált példány) [antikvár]

Preface by Sir Martin GilbertROman Halter is an artist, with a gift not only for painting but for words. His memoirs reflect a deep sensitivity to his life and times, which during the Second World War were perilous in the extreme. His memoirs show just how implacable the Nazi enemy could be. It is important that he has now chosen, more than fifty years after the end of the war, to set down his recollections. They are vivid and in many places extremely harrovring. No one who reads them from cover to cover, hngering over the episodes that are the most dramatic and savage, will have any doubt that the fate of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis was intended to be total destruction.It has always been essential, in studying the Holocaust, to recognize the nature of German life before the war, in all its variety and vibrancy. Roman Halter s account of his childhood is no mere preface, but a portrait-in-the-round of a lost era.