Gift of Time

Frances PRINCE

About this book
When the global pandemic hit Melbourne in March 2020, Frances Prince resolved to spend her afternoons in lockdown reading to David, her 95-year-old father. The books they explored together revived David’s memories of his own Holocaust experience and his life as a Polish Jewish university student in post-war Munich. As the days passed, what began as a reading project to fill the time, turned into an unexpected and rewarding journey of discovery.
Product details
Category
The Holocaust
Publisher
Real Film and Publishing
Published
2021
ISBN
064521311X, 9780645213119
Country
Australia
Pages
284 pages
EXCERPT
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
Author
Frances PRINCE

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