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A carregar... The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghettopor Mary Berg
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Il 16 maggio 1943 il ghetto di Varsavia veniva raso al suolo, defintivamente; ne rimaneva un cumulo di macerie, ma fu un'illusione dei nazisti pensare di poter distruggere anche il ricordo di quei terribili giorni. Mary Berg aveva lasciato il ghetto qualche mese prima, in attesa di essere scambiata con ufficiali tedeschi prigionieri delle forze alleate; con sé, sotto gli occhi vigili dei nazisti, portò le pagine del suo diario. Quando iniziò a scriverlo, il 10 ottobre 1939, Mary Berg aveva 15 anni e un'incredibile capacità di osservare quegli stessi eventi dai quali si sentiva travolta. La sua attenzione ai fatti storici, tuttavia non impedisce mai l'emergere dei sentimenti o di aspetti della sua vita privata di adolescente. Ne scaturisce un libro che, oltre al suo valore di documento, apre a interrogativi e a risposte di bruciante attualità. Sostenuto da una scrittura scarna e veloce, ricca di partecipazione emotiva e non mai rassegnata al divario che si apriva tra la realtà e le parole per rappresentarla, il diario di Mary Berg, come quello di Anne Frank, è una testimonianza irrinunciabile del nostro tempo. ( ) Rio de Janeiro, anni quaranta. Quartiere di Tijuca. Bellissima e ribelle, Guida è fuggita di casa per coronare il proprio sogno d’amore con il rampollo di una famiglia che si opponeva al fidanzamento. Mentre Eurídice, la sorella, figlia modello rimasta a consolare i genitori, è una moglie devota e attenta, salvo poi, di tanto in tanto, lanciarsi in qualche bizzarro progetto. Ma ogni sua iniziativa è destinata al fallimento. La società carioca non è ancora pronta per dare spazio alle donne intraprendenti e nessun uomo è interessato ad avere una moglie che pensa. Finché, un giorno, Guida si presenta alla porta della sorella. Infelice e sventurata, è disposta a tutto per sopravvivere. Sullo sfondo di una città che brulica di vita, si dipana il rocambolesco percorso di emancipazione delle due sorelle. Perché ogni grande rivoluzione comincia sempre tra le mura domestiche. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. Is it literature? Is there such thing as Holocaust literature? Had Ann Frank or Mary Berg the intention to write a work that would be considered of superior or lasting artistic merit? It is more a statement of what they observed. The later being a journal of her life in the Warsaw Ghetto, a truthful statement that perceives all the paradoxes of being in a situation of willful extermination that progressively imposes its reality on you. The old world continues to exist while the extermination machine relentlessly continues to function. I had to stop reading for a moment... What a contrast with Curzio Malaparte's literary narrative written in his 1944 biography: "Kaputt" - that was written right after the Warsaw Ghetto's uprising that had tragically occurred in June 1943. Malaparte, the great and nefarious Italian writer and Mussolini sympathizer, narrated around the same time and with self-indulgence, his lavish dinners with Gauleiter Hans Franck of Poland and the Nazi elites...unbearable after reading Mary Berg where hunger is a permanent theme. So Mary and her young Jewish friends seek spiritual foods as a comfort for the lack of real food, by acting plays, attending classes, playing music, drawing art or attending songs or music recitals to forget that most in the Ghetto plainly seek for food. With her mother being an American citizen, Mary admits she only suffers partially from hunger which she really experiences after she is transferred with her family out of the ghetto to the prison and prior to the Ghetto's liquidation. There is also an interesting description of a reverse social and pecking order. One in which guards, at first Germans and later Ukrainians or Lithuanians, have the power of life and death over the Jews inhabiting the Ghetto. Bakers, smugglers, and black marketeers profit - albeit temporarily - from the misery of the greater number; talented Attorneys, savvy antique dealers, actors or concert pianists are struggling to obtain the coveted jobs of janitor, inspector of walls, maker of uniforms for the German Army or Jewish police, in an effort to survive and escape deportation to a labor camp. Unceasingly, they all begin to comprehend, after hearing testimonies from escapees of these "labor camps" who smuggled themselves back in the Ghetto, that these are camps of extermination. Mary and her companions find little support from the gentile Polish population, with notable exceptions of brave Poles who risk their lives to procure food or weapons, at the risk of being denounced by Polish collaborators in majority outside the Ghetto's wall. Because extermination it is, from a concentration 400,000.00 Ghetto inhabitants progressively reduced by daily deportations amounting 10,000.00 per day. Horrible math leaving only 60,000.00 scattered through the ruins and tunnels of the Ghetto who will participate in the Ghetto's last song, its tragic uprising. The value of this journal is also its survival, as Mary narrowly escapes the fate of the Ghetto when, due to diplomatic considerations, the Nazis decide to round up the holders of foreign passports and transfer them out to facilitate the discrete liquidation of the Ghetto. This ultimately did not work for the late holders of Latin American passports who were at the very end, shipped back in closed trains from Vittel France to Poland to be murdered. For those interested in this time period, I recommend: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto_testimonies/after_depo... sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the Second World War. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the daily deprivations and mass deportations, but also the resistance and resilience of the inhabitants, their secret societies, and the youth at the forefront of the fight against Nazi terror. Above all The Diary of Mary Berg is a uniquely personal story of a life-loving girl's encounter with unparalleled human suffering, and offers an extraordinary insight into one of the darkest chapters of human history. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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