Summary
Zev Birger: There is no time for patience
This autobiographical record of the Israeli Zev Birger was most succinctly characterized by the author himself with the subtitle Biography of a man who survived the Holocaust. And really, it is a simple and honest description of his own experiences from that dark time in the first half of the forties of the last century, when Birger was a young man with a Zionist orientation. As soon as the Germans occupied his hometown Kaunus in Lithuania, they placed all the Jews in an improvised ghetto where there were not even basic conditions for life. In the summer of 1944, the Nazis packed all the surviving Jews into transports and took them to concentration camps. That's how Birger miraculously met the end of the war alive in Dachau. The author also describes his illegal activity in post-war Germany and his transfer to Palestine, where he helped create the Israeli state. (From Zlatko Crnković's review)
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