Language: English
Published by Mellen Poetry, Lewiston, 1999
Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Here's an example of what was lost in the Holocaust: Balbin was born in Krakow in 1917, mother died in a gas chamber but he and father survived in ghettos and four Nazi concentrationlager. liberated in 1945, spent time in hospital yet managed to earn Ph. D. and become poet of concentration camp life, researcher and professor of foreign languages. How many might have followed this same path if the war had never occurred? A rare example of what was lost, uncommon copy in perfect condition. Blue paper covers.