My stripes were earned in hell [electronic resource] : a French resistance fighter's memoir of survival in a Nazi prison camp / Jean-Pierre Renouard ; translated by Mimi Horne.

My stripes were earned in hell [electronic resource] : a French resistance fighter's memoir of survival in a Nazi prison camp / Jean-Pierre Renouard ; translated by Mimi Horne.

Costume rayé d'enfer. English

9781442214019 (electronic book)
9781442213999

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2012]

©2012

English

1 online resource (xii, 122 pages)

D805.G3 R43213 2012eb

940.54/7243515092 B

"This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germany's Nazi prison camps. In this spare, compelling narrative of a year during which he and the world he knew descended into hell, he recounts his battle to survive--physically, emotionally, and morally. In May 1944, just a month before D-Day, Renouard, then a teenaged French underground fighter, was captured by the Gestapo, crammed into a cattle wagon with a hundred others, and sent to Neuengamme in Germany. After two months, he was transferred to the Misburg subcamp. In both camps he suffered, as did all his fellow inmates, from insufficient food and shelter and no medicine while being forced to do long hours of hard labor. Renouard vividly depicts the labor camps' brutal daily life and social hierarchies, his personal struggles, the friendships gained and lost, and, of course, his incredible and primary task of survival. When he was finally transferred to the infamous Bergen-Belsen death camp, a typhus epidemic had already spread, and he helplessly watched his last surviving comrades die. Even after Allied troops liberated the camp on April 15, 1945, he had to wait painful months before he could return to France. Written in a deliberately neutral tone, without hatred or even resentment, Renouard's memoir is a memorial to those murdered and a powerful testimony to the human capacity to commit--and to survive--mass atrocity."--Publisher's website.

Translation of: Un costume rayé d'enfer. Paris : Pocket, 2008.

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