163256: A Memoir of Resistance (Life Writing)

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163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew throughout World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in a lot of death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death again and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought used to be right―helping other prisoners escape and actively participating in the underground resistance.

A man who refused to give up his spirit regardless of the lack of his wife and his entire circle of relatives to the Nazis, Englishman kept a promise he had made to a friend, and sought his friend’s children after the war. With the children’s mother, he made a new life in Canada, where he continued his resistance, tracking neo-Nazi cells and infiltrating their headquarters to destroy their files.

Until his death in August 2007, Englishman remained active, speaking out against racism and hatred in seminars for young people. His gripping story will have to be widely read and will probably be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust.

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