Remember: My Stories of Survival and Beyond

by Marcel Tuchman

Tuchman recounts dramatic tales of his often brutal, always compelling experiences as a youth in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and in its aftermath. The story carries us from the Przemysl ghetto and slave labor in the Auschwitz death camp to his experiences attending university in post-war Germany, filled with characters both good and evil, and some even heroic, all of whom played a role in his survival. These are tales that cannot be told often enough, as every voice in them adds a necessary thread to the fabric of one of history's most horrific events.

260 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not the usual Holocaust memoir, this one was published in 2010, and benefits from the author's maturity and introspection. (The author is an accomplished professor of clinical medicine at NYU Medical School.) What made this work a little different for me is the question: does the Siemens conglomerate deserve praise or denunciation for 'saving' the lives of their slave labourers? He grapples with this question throughout the book and stresses that the Siemens war archives are still inaccessible. It is an important and well-written work and I recommend it. But the question still remains, why won't Siemens open their archives to historians like Tuchman?