Year of Fear: A Jewish prisoner waits for Auschwitz by Philip Mechanicus

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Year of Fear: A Jewish prisoner waits for Auschwitz by Philip Mechanicus:
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Year of Fear: A Jewish prisoner waits for Auschwitz by Philip MechanicusENGLISHVG CONDITION, HARDCOVER YEAR OF FEAR adds a unique chapter to the tragic history of the Jews during World War II. It is the compelling diary of a Dutch Jewish journalist who was imprisoned for over a year in a transit camp in Westerbork, Holland, where thousands waited to be channeled to an unknown fate in German and Polish concentration camps.

Westerbork was run, from its inception, almost entirely by the Jewish inmates. Mechanicus documents in his diary the tragic result of this autonomy: harmony and solidarity were replaced by animosity in a futile and demoralizing power struggle to gain key positions and thereby escape the dreaded deportation lists.

Arrested in September, 1942, for not wearing the compulsory yellow star, Mechanicus assigned himself the role of camp chronicler and secretly kept this journal throughout his stay at Westerbork. When he was brought in, the camp was officially called a \"labor camp.\" Later, the name changed to \"transit camp,\" and finally to \"dispersal camp\" as its purpose became horribly clear.

Mechanicus\' diary outlines the bizarre social and political structure of Westerbork, and his own unwitting involvement in the frequent intrigues. As the war progressed, subtle changes in mood and attitude ran through the camp. The early optimism and faith in a quick peace (\"Britain and America could put an end to the war in a short time, but they don\'t want to...\"); the early smugness of the German Jews, which later turned into panic as they learned they were going to an even more hostile country; the sporadic bursts of interest in concerts, tea parties, burlesque, sports; the disgust and triviality of communal life; and the final bewildering realization that there was no exit.

Philip Mechanicus was deported on March 8, 1944. On October 9 he was sent to Auschwitz. From statements made by survivors, it is assumed that Mechanicus was shot along with 120 fellow prisoners on October 12, 1944.

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