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Return to the Place I Never Left

Return to the Place I Never Left

Schiff, Tobias
James, Dani

Paperback

Historical FiguresHolocaust

ISBN10: 081435162X
ISBN13: 9780814351628
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Jan 14 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A personal testament in poetry to survival, resilience, and the complex legacy of the Holocaust.

Winner of a National Jewish Book Award!
Bronze Medalist for IPPY Book Awards in the Poetry-Specialty category!

Available for the first time in English!

In 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 and starved, and learn what enabled him and others to cling to life while surrounded by death. Schiff's verse challenges dehumanizing narratives and provides an intimate view of the realities of life in Nazi death camps and the long-lasting impact of trauma.

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