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At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its
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At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities Paperback - 2009

by Amery, Jean

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Jean Amery (1921-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance. He was caught by the Germans in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival--mental, moral, and physical--through the enormity and horror of the Holocaust.

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  • Title At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities
  • Author Amery, Jean
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-03-23
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0253211735.G
  • ISBN 9780253211736 / 0253211735
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - Identity, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80007682
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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TAKE CARE, a well-meaning friend advised me when he heard of my plan to speak on the intellectual in Auschwitz.

About the author

Jean Amery (1912-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance Movement. He was caught by the Germans in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. He was author of seven volumes of essays and two novels. He committed suicide in 1978.
Sidney Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Professor of German at Oberlin College, and Stella P. Rosenfeld, Ph.D., are cotranslators of Radical Humanism by Jean Amery and Jewish Life in Germany edited by M. Richarz.