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FROM: Gem Stone-Logan <[removed]@gmail.com>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 3:05 PM

Hi,

I have an adult patron that is interested in books about the Holocaust
written from the perspective of a Nazi Guard. It can be either
fiction or non-fiction.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Gem Stone-Logan
[removed]@gmail.com
Farr Reference Librarian
Weld Library District

FROM: "Brown, Carole Campbell" <[removed]@ci.greensboro.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 3:39 PM

Not exactly from the Nazi Guard's perspective, but an excellent and thought provoking book.

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)
by SIMON WIESENTHAL
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Author Simon Weisenthal recalls his demoralizing life in a concentration camp and his envy of the dead Germans who have sunflowers marking their graves. At the time he assumed his grave would be a mass one, unmarked and forgotten. Then, one day, a dying Nazi soldier asks Weisenthal for forgiveness for his crimes against the Jews. What would you do? This important book and the provocative question it poses is birthing debates, symposiums, and college courses. The Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Primo Levi, and others who have witnessed genocide and human tyranny answer Wiesenthal's ultimate question on forgiveness.--

Carole Campbell Brown
Readers Advisory Assistant/Teen Event Coordinator
Voice Mail (336) 433- 7260 & Reader's Advisory phone (336) 412-6271
E-Mail : [removed]@greensboro-nc.gov
Central Library
219 N. Church St.
Greensboro, NC 27402

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Gem Stone-Logan
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:55 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Holocaust from perspective of Nazi Guard

Hi,

I have an adult patron that is interested in books about the Holocaust
written from the perspective of a Nazi Guard. It can be either
fiction or non-fiction.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Gem Stone-Logan
[removed]@gmail.com
Farr Reference Librarian
Weld Library District

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/13/05, 8:35 PM

Romain Gary's "Dance of Genghis Cohn" has the ghost of a Jewish comedian come
back to haunt and possess his Nazi guard. Black humor.

Carolyn Smith
USF SLIS student

FROM: "Slezak, Patricia" <[removed]@waynepubliclibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/14/05, 9:11 AM

Perhaps "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway? The
protagonist is not an ex-Nazi guard, however he has a relationship with
someone who was.

SYNOPSIS
"The Reader" is both a literary surprise and a moral challenge: a
riveting, provocative, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's
erotic awakening in a passionate, clandestine love affair with an older
woman, and what happens to them both when the secrets in her past are
revealed. Fifteen-year-old Michael Berg becomes ill on the way home from
school. A woman takes care of him. Later, the boy arrives at her home
with a bunch of flowers to thank her. And then comes back again. Hanna
is the first woman he has ever desired. But there is something slightly
off-key about her. His questions about her family and her life go
unanswered. One day Hanna simply disappears. Michael's life goes on, but
he can't forget her. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in
Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is
Hanna. The woman he had loved so passionately is a criminal. Much about
her behavior during the trial makes no sense. But then, suddenly and
terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible
crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret. As the
past erupts into the present - both Michael's past with Hanna, and the
past of Germany itself - Michael must accept that he will never be free
of either of them."

Patty Slezak
Reference Librarian
Wayne Public Library
461 Valley Road
Wayne, NJ 07470
Phone: 973-694-4272 ext. 5416
Email: [removed]@waynepubliclibrary.org

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
On Behalf Of Gem Stone-Logan
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:55 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Holocaust from perspective of Nazi Guard

Hi,

I have an adult patron that is interested in books about the Holocaust
written from the perspective of a Nazi Guard. It can be either
fiction or non-fiction.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Gem Stone-Logan
[removed]@gmail.com
Farr Reference Librarian
Weld Library District

FROM: "Sarah Nagle" <[removed]@carverlib.org>
REC'D: 1/14/05, 10:36 AM

On my (teetering) pile of books at home to read is THOSE WHO SAVE US by Jenna Blum. The protagonist isn't a prison guard, but there is "complicity" with a concentration camp commander involved.

Sarah Nagle
Reference Coordinator
Carver County Library
4 City Hall Plaza
Chaska, MN 55318
email [removed]@carverlib.org
Phone: 952-227-1513
Fax: 952-279-1510

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