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A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion.
When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Sixty-years after her death, when Götz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history.
A gripping account of a family caught in the tightening grip of persecution, Into the Tunnel is a powerful reminder that the millions of Nazi victims were also, each one, an individual life.
When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Sixty-years after her death, when Götz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history.
A gripping account of a family caught in the tightening grip of persecution, Into the Tunnel is a powerful reminder that the millions of Nazi victims were also, each one, an individual life.
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"A slim but powerful record… Into the Tunnel pieces fragments of an ordinary life into an extraordinary fabric of remembrance. By restoring one girl's history, Götz Aly helps us bear witness to the unique fate of one innocent consumed by the Holocaust."
Bookpage
"A book of unparalleled vividness and power."
Booklist
"Inspired… Aly mines a staggering amount of data to great effect."
The New York Times Book Review