{"product_id":"9781503572553","title":"FIGHTING FASCISM AND SURVIVING BUCHENWALD: The Life and Memoir of Hans Bergas","description":"Bension Varon has given the world two great gifts: the publication for the first time of the remarkable 1946 Buchenwald memoir of Hans Bergas and a riveting account of Bergas' equally remarkable life. Bergas, a highly secular German Jew, was first known to Bension Varon as the brother-in-law of his wife's uncle. Far transcending genealogical interest, Varon's painstaking research has revealed the many identities of Hans Bergas: an impassioned Social Democrat, who battled both fascist and communist threats to Germany's fledgling, interwar democracy; a member of the anti-Nazi Resistance in France, who aided other escapees of the Nazi regime; a victim of capture and savage torture by the Gestapo; a years-long \"political\" inmate in Buchenwald, active in the camp resistance; and a gifted chronicler of life in Buchenwald and the detail of Nazi depravity. In this volume, Bergas emerges like a lost treasure from history's attic, precious both in itself and for what it reveals about its troubled times.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137065992432,"sku":"9781503572553","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781503572553_p0.jpg?v=1763708774","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781503572553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}