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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 16:42:48 GMT
Another free eBook
amazon.com/Holocaust-Beyond-Short-Stories-ebook/dp/B07RMZFYN7/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=elizabeth+keimach+short+stories+of+auschwitz+and+beyond&qid=1579970186&sr=8-1-fk
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Post by benziger on Jan 27, 2020 14:50:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 16:40:17 GMT
Thank you Benziger. I am not that great on the computer.
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Post by benziger on Jan 28, 2020 6:37:40 GMT
Dear Larika
Yesterday evening I read the first two chapters of your book. English is a second language for me. So I do not want to say anything about the writing style or linguistic aspects.
However, I am familiar with the genre "stories only and yet history" and I have a number of such books in my rack. Besides the eyewitness accounts and factual texts on the subject, this certainly includes reporting on the Holocoust. The second story is almost too beautiful - but according to a note in the book it is based on a true event.
With the first story, however, I had some doubts towards the end. What I read - just these days again - about the final phase of the "Final Solution", about the pitiful condition of the prisoners, that most of the liberated ones did not survive, the scene of father and son marching to Buchenwald and the son still carrying his father seemed to me a bit even optimistic. Perhaps I saw false inner images? Then it would be helpful to expand some passages - certainly with dialogues, but above all indirectly with feelings, thoughts, pain. So it's rather inner than direct images/statements. so that I, as a reader, can imagine the bad things as much I can still imagine them.
What I don't know is who your target audience was. I could well imagine reading and discussing the text with older primary school pupils in the context of history lessons.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 7:54:24 GMT
Thank you for your comments. My books about Auschwitz came about after my visit to the camps. I was brought up a Christian but I was ashamed of the way Christians treated the Jews on the continent and horrified at the way the Nazis behaved during the Holocaust. The books just came bursting out of me. Benziger I am not a great writer. I write simply and from the heart. I make my eBooks free because I want people to know and never forget the horrors of the Holocaust. Others like "Stolen" and "Joys Story" I make free because I feel people must learn what is happening to women in Saudi Arabia. My "Pig Child" is my concern for the way animals are treated in our world.My books are to raise awareness. Hundreds of people from all over the world have downloaded my free eBooks and hopefully some will read them. I made a free eBook of my visit to Auschwitz/Birkenau here, www.lulu.com/shop/elizabeth-keimach/my-visit-to-the-death-camps-auschwitz-and-birkenau/ebook/product-23782684.html
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 11:40:51 GMT
However I have now taken Maggie's advice and charge a small amount for Stolen and Joy's story. We shall see!!
PS I did loads of research for my Auschwitz books and some did carry their relatives on the long walk. However as you said few survived.
Yes the fact that a baby survived and was born in the Camp, is true but it is a very different story from mine.
When I lived in the US I met several survivers of the death camps. Seeing the numbers tattood on their arms made me very sad. I finally made it to Auschwitz/Buchenwald. I think all children need to be taught about this period in history and maybe the older ones could even visit the camps. I also visited Yad Vashem in Israel. I walked up the avenue of trees planted for those who helped the Jews in spite of facing death. Wonderful people! The Memorial site is a excellent remembrance of the Holocaust. "Lest we forget".
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Post by hulsey on Jan 28, 2020 16:28:41 GMT
Although I've written a couple of books based on the Holocaust, this period of history really saddens me. I confess to not reading many books, but recently read The Tattoist of Auschwitz and it emotinally moved me. I say every year I will visit Auschwitz and maybe one day I will. I too am Christian but am perplexed by how a seemingly civilised nation could allow the Nazis to govern them. I will purchase your book after I've finished Stolen, Larika.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 5:37:26 GMT
I too was really moved by the Tattooist of Auschwitz.I went to Auschwitz but it was Buchenwald that really got to me. The desolation I felt there, the lack of birds and the feeling of despair which overwhelms the place were so hard to bear. I think these 2 camps were enough for me. My friend toured all the death camps ---TOO MUCH! hulsey What are your books about the Holocaust?
PS hulsey Why don't you put your signature on your posts. If I remember correctly it's in profiles and personal information. It will help us find your books easily.
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Post by hulsey on Jan 29, 2020 8:47:17 GMT
I did not know about the signature, but have now added my Lulu Author Spotlight rather than my webpage. The books are The Orphans of Dachau and Devil's Deceit, which is primarily about Nazi hunters. Thanks for the tip about th signature.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 9:57:23 GMT
hulsey, I've bought the Orphans of Dachau
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Post by hulsey on Jan 29, 2020 16:06:56 GMT
Thank you, Larika.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 16:30:52 GMT
I read a lot of books about the Holocaust but a couple of days ago I saw a film on Channel 4 called "Night will Fall". It showed the unaccountable horrors of the liberated death camps including Dachau. It was "a British film about the Holocaust that was abandoned and shelved for 70 years because it was deemed too politically sensitive. The smell came from the dead, their bodies burned or rotting; or from malnourished, often disease-ridden prisoners in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, near all those thriving German farms" It was an incredibly strong film but I had to glance away from time to time as it was so hard to believe that a civilized country like Germany spawned individuals who were prepared to be part of this barbaric behaviour. It boggles the mind! My cousin married a German and when I met him, the first thing he said was "My family were very much against the Nazis." It's surprising how many deny supporting the Nazis, but apart from a handful of people who tried to fight against what was going on with Hitler, I'm afraid the majority either supported the monster or turned a blind eye."The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated groups."(wikipedia)
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Post by hulsey on Jan 29, 2020 16:40:17 GMT
Just downloaded your book, My visit to the Death Camps. Will read and review after I've finished Stolen. Sorry for being so slow.
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Post by hulsey on Feb 4, 2020 16:35:34 GMT
Larika, I finished and reviewed Stolen and sent you message a couple of days ago. If you did not receive message, here it is again. I finished Stolen and enjoyed it immensely. Amazon will not allow me to review it as usual, saying I have not spent enough. I could not find you on Goodreads but placed a review on Lulu. If you would like me to review it anywhere else, I'll gladly oblige. Below is the review. www.lulu.com/shop/elizabeth-keimach/stolen/ebook/product-21891176.html
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2020 19:15:25 GMT
Thank you hulsey. I really appreciate the review.
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