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.
Renouard, Jean-Pierre.; Horne, Mimi.
2012
D805.G3 R43213 2012eb
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Title 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.
Author Renouard, Jean-Pierre.
Uniform Title Costume rayé d'enfer. English
ISBN 9781442214019 (electronic book)
9781442213999
Imprint Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 122 p.)
Call Number D805.G3 R43213 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/7243515092 B
Summary "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.
Note Translation of: Un costume rayé d'enfer. Paris : Pocket, 2008.
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Added Author Horne, Mimi.
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