Jessica Setbon
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentration camps and how he managed to survive against all...