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In Speak You Also, which is eloquently translated from the French by Linda Coverdale with Bill Ford, Steinberg . I haven't heard of Paul Steinberg before I read this book.

In Speak You Also, which is eloquently translated from the French by Linda Coverdale with Bill Ford, Steinberg cryptically ravels and unravels his past. A delivery, however long overdue, is still deliverance. The book is a gem and recollects the life of a camp inmate trying to survive the war. Steinberg was one of those people who helped the inmate leadership run the killing camps. He was a chemist in one of the IB Farben complexes.

This book contained specific and unforgettable memories that stood out to Steinberg. He described each memory with great precision. A beefy middleweight, around 165 pounds just under six feet. I Later found out he was a soldier from the Wehrmacht who’d had a few fights.

Author(s): Paul Steinberg, Linda Coverdale (Translation). Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning (Paperback). ISBN: 0312420455 (ISBN13: 9780312420451). Published May 30th 2002 by Penguin Books Ltd. Paperback, 176 pages. Author(s): Paul Steinberg, Linda Coverdale (Translator). Bill Ford (Translator).

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The sole common denominator of the survivors", Steinberg concludes, is "an inordinate appetite for life - and the .

The sole common denominator of the survivors", Steinberg concludes, is "an inordinate appetite for life - and the flexibility of a contortionist". An appetite for life and flexibility are, of course, among our most highly valued secular virtues; but qualifying them in the way Steinberg qualifies them makes them look as though they were themselves forms of torture. One of the things that makes Speak You Also so powerful is that Steinberg doesn't know what to make of himself: neither the younger self that he is trying to recollect nor the much older self who is struggling to write the book.

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Paul Steinberg, Linda Coverdale, Bill Ford. In 1943 16 year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. He survived the death camp due in part to his admitted ruthlessness and not a little to luck. Some 50 years later, Steinberg describes his strategies for survival, the maneouvres and tactics he applied with cold competence. In an unsparing act of self-examination he traces his passage from artless adolescent to a ruthless creature determined to do anything to live, described and identified in Primo Levi's "If This Is A Man As "Henri"".

In ''Speak You Also,'' which is eloquently translated from the French by Linda Coverdale with Bill Ford, Steinberg cryptically ravels and unravels his past. He was born in Berlin in 1926, the youngest of three children of Russian refugees. His mother died a few days after his birth. 'My father didn't care much for me,'' he writes. 'After all, I'd killed his wife, my mother, when I was born.

Paul Steinberg (Henri’s real name) wrote a memoir that largely confirms Levi’s position on the nature of survival . See Paul Steinberg, Speak You Also: A Survivor’s Reckoning, trans.

Paul Steinberg (Henri’s real name) wrote a memoir that largely confirms Levi’s position on the nature of survival, although he judges his actions less harshly than Levi did. Linda Coverdale (New York: Henry Holt, 2000).

A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity. "One seems to glimpse a human soul," Levi wrote in If This Is a Man, "but then Henri's sad smile freezes in a cold grimace, and here he is again, intent on his hunt and his struggle; hard and distant, enclosed in armor, the enemy of all."

Now, after fifty years, Steinberg speaks for himself. In an unsparing act of self-scrutiny, he traces his passage from artless adolescent to ruthless creature determined to do anything to live. He describes his strategies of survival: the boxing matches he staged for the camp commanders, the English POWs he exploited, the maneuvers and tactics he applied with cold competence. Ultimately, he confirms Levi's judgment: "No doubt he saw straight. I probably was that creature, prepared to use whatever means I had available." But, he asks, "Is it so wrong to survive?"

Brave and rare, Speak You Also is a profound and necessary addition to the body of Holocaust writing: a survivor's reckoning with culpability and survival.

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ISBN: 0312420455
ISBN13: 978-0312420451
Category: Biographies
Subcategory: Historical
Author: Linda Coverdale,Paul Steinberg
Language: English
Publisher: Picador (December 7, 2001)
Pages: 176 pages
ePUB size: 1232 kb
FB2 size: 1891 kb
Rating: 4.1
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Livina

If you read only one book from Holocaust survivor, read this one. It was recommended by a dear friend and it will forever change the way that you perceive The Holocaust.

Fenritaur

outstanding study of an amazing story. Extraordinary research, very thoughtful, careful, reflective. Amazing story.

Gardataur

I was curious about this memoir as its author is the man whom Primo Levi depicts in his own writing about the concentration camp where they were fellow inmates, as the lowest of the low. Concentration camps were where people were pared down to the few basic shreds of their character, ,According to the revered Primo Levi, every shred of Steinberg proved contemptible. Steinberg makes a slightly better case for himself. One should read both accounts.

Rgia

I just finished reading this great first-hand account of living through the Holocaust in Nazi death camps, by Paul Steinberg. What separates this text is that it seems less caught up with providing the reader with every single detail of daily life and more focused with the author's personal struggle, the friendships gained and forgotten, the death camp's social hieracrchies, and of course, his incredible task of survival. Paul Steinberg admits that he was an atypical Jew, uninvolved with Jewish ways and traditions, and he wonders why he survived and others perished; Jews that were more religious, possessed more wisdom, strength, etc. Truly, Steinberg's ordeal is almost unbelievable. He was able to do what he had to in order to survive. This book is great if you want to gain a good understanding of these historical events, a different time period in life, and the human struggle, all through the eyes of this remarkable man. He is honest and sincere, and holds nothing back.

Lesesshe

Product was needed early in the shipping date period and arrived on the first day available; also in good condition

Faegal

I haven't heard of Paul Steinberg before I read this book. The book is a gem and recollects the life of a camp inmate trying to survive the war. Steinberg was one of those people who helped
the inmate leadership run the killing camps. He was a chemist in one of the IB Farben complexes. His short but powerful story shows how stronger people were consumed, while a flexible youngster survived the camps by doing what he had to do to stay alive.
This should be required reading for those people who deny that the Holocaust happened. It is also a reminder that the general population should always remember these events. Steinberg found this book hard to write, but it was easy to read and conveyed a powerful perspective.

Camper

Speak You Also tells an empowering story of struggle and determination without showing the slightest trace of self-pity. Steinberg's novel was so moving, because he did not feel bad for everything he endured, but instead focused on the theme of what made him survive in contrast to the concept of death. From the point of view of someone who never witnessed the Holocaust, the memoir perfectly illustrates the life lessons that have come from those who endured it. One example would be the constant question of morality, which Steinberg comments "You do good when you can and when you happen to feel like it. In all other cases, you do evil, if you have even the slightest scrap of power". The author captures the emotions of himself and those around him. He is able to bring back all these horrifying memories to share with the reader so his story is never forgotten. This novel is by far a must read for people of all ages and backgrounds. Speak You Also is Steinberg's time to speak out about the horrors he witnessed during his days in Auschwitz as well as to reflect back on many unanswered questions in this extremely heart-filled and brutally honest account of the Holocaust.

This is a good book about the Holocaust.

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