PILGRIM AMONG THE SHADOWS. by Pahor, Boris.

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PILGRIM AMONG THE SHADOWS.

Edition: First US printing.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A compelling holocaust memoir - a Slovene from Trieste, Italy, Pahor was a medic/prisoner in several concentration camps, including Belsen and Dachau during the final 14 months of World War II. This memoir, first published in Slovene in 1967 (under the title Nekropola, "graveyard"), describes his 1966 visit to a camp in the Vosges mountains of Eastern France, where he recalls how helpless he felt in his attempts to render medical aid in the face of extreme brutality, the endless procession of the dead and dying, and how it feels to be freezing, starving, and completely dehumanized. Translated from the Slovene by Michael Biggins. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1719586.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 82333
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