No Road Leading Back

Name: No Road Leading Back
Brand: Schocken
SKU: 9780805243710-PRUSDTR-US
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An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

Chris Heath (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Hardback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

640 pages • 6.42 x 9.53 x 1.27 in

Approx. weight: 2.03 lb

Publication date: 03 Sep,2024

Barcode: 9780805243710 • Schocken

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By: Chris Heath

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest of Ponar after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. later in the war enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labor—an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust.

From within that dire circumstance emerges the improbable escape made by some of the men, who dug a tunnel with bare hands and spoons while they were trapped and guarded day and night—an act not just of bravery and desperation but of awesome imagination. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on each scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed, or amplified since, this book resurrects their lives, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it—and all uncomfortable historical truths—with honesty and accuracy.