Return to the Place I Never Left - 9780814352434

Return to the Place I Never LeftAuthor(s): Tobias Schiff, Dani James\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wayne State University Press, United States\nImprint: Wayne State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814352434, 978-0814352434\nSynopsis\nA personal testament in poetry to survival, resilience, and the complex legacy of the [url] for the first time in English!\n\nIn this harrowing firsthand account of the Holocaust, survivor Tobias Schiff displays the depths of human suffering, the capacity for hope and renewal, and the impact of starvation on the human mind. Schiff was a teenager when Nazis deported his family to Auschwitz from Antwerp, Belgium, and he spent the next thirty-three agonizing months in numerous concentration camps. This deeply personal memoir-in-verse explores personal faith, identity, memory, and trauma across a lifetime interrupted by suffering. Through his eyes, readers witness the atrocities and struggles that defined his daily existence, feel his tenacity while beaten an.