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No road leading back an improbable escape from the Nazis in a place called Ponar, and the tangled way we tell the story of the Holocaust

"This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and bondage by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story o...

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Main Author: Heath, Chris (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Schocken Books, [2024]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
Holocaust survivors > Lithuania > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Lithuania > Paneriai.
Jews > Persecutions > Lithuania.
Paneriai (Lithuania) > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Wartime
  • A place called Ponar
  • A man who escaped twice
  • In the Vilna ghetto
  • The teenager's story
  • Into the pit
  • The new arrivals
  • The bodies
  • Of bureaucracy
  • The idea
  • The digging
  • The escape
  • The forest
  • Part II. After
  • Title to come
  • The first accounts
  • An official report
  • The death of Konstantin Potanin
  • Poetry and prose
  • The path of Shlomo Gol
  • A story untold
  • Yuli Farber
  • To Israel
  • Life in Israel
  • The accidental witnesses
  • Life onward
  • The historian
  • Shoah
  • In America
  • From the dark
  • On returning
  • The custodian
  • A man called Sakowicz
  • Locals
  • Where the mushrooms grow
  • The guilty and their ghosts
  • Abraham Blazer
  • Part III. Discovery
  • The lost tunnel
  • Lithuania, then and now
  • The searchers
  • June 2016
  • The daughter
  • Discoveries and disputes
  • Other traces
  • The Final Two
  • William Good
  • Echoes
  • One day each year
  • A song about Ponar
  • Epilogue: One more man.

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