Antelme, Robert The Human Race (0810160617)
Arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau, Robert Antelme recovered his freedom a year later when François Mitterand, visiting the camp in an official capacity, recognized the dying Antelme and had him spirited to Paris. Antelme's story of his experiences in Germany--his only book--indelibly marked an entire generation, 'a work written without hatred, a work of boundless compassion such as that is to be found only in the great Russians.
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