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This Week’s NonFiction Book:
Scheisshaus Luck
by Pierre Berg, Brian Brock
"From
Pierre
Berg's
opening
words,
to
his
decidedly
un-lucky
detention
by
Gestapo
officers,
all
the
way
through
his
internment
in
Drancy,
Auschwitz,
Dora,
and
Ravensbrueck,
Scheisshaus
Luck
is
a
harrowing,
clear-eyed
testament
of
one
young
man's
experience
of
the
Holocaust.
Originally
penned
shortly
after
the
war
when
memories
were
still
fresh,
this
autobiographical
account
of
a
Gentile
French
teenager's
odyssey
of
horror
and
survival
recounts
Berg's
day-to-day
struggle
for
survival
in
the
camps,
escaping
death
countless
times
while
enduring
inhuman
conditions,
exhaustive
slave
labor,
and
near
starvation."
Relentlessly
unsentimental,
yet
tinged
with
a
sense
of
brutal
irony,
Scheisshaus
Luck
provides
a
new
perspective
on
some
of
the
Nazis'
most
notorious
concentration
camps.
As
we
quickly
approach
the
day
when
there
will
be
no
living
eyewitnesses
to
the
Nazis'
"Final
Solution,"
Berg's
memoir
stands
as
a
searing
reminder
of
Nazi
crimes.
Scheisshaus
Luck
is
a
major
addition
to
Holocaust
literature,
and
a
young
man's
haunting
account
of
one
of
the
darkest
periods
in
history.
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