Sobibor

by Michael Lev

Sobibor traces the life of Berek (later Bernard) Schlesinger from his Polish shtetl childhood to his life during the Holocaust hiding in the woods, finding refuge with non-Jews, confinement in Sobibor, escape during the uprising, working with partisans documents. A physician after the war, he follows a relentless, unfulfilled pursuit of retribution for Nazi war criminals through the courts. The Sobibor uprising and its leaders, Alexander Pechersky, are pivotal to the novel. The author, Michael Lev, a product of Soviet Jewish culture, avoids loud rhetoric and heroic pathos, keeping the narration within the limits of realism. A flowing, masterful read.

Genres: Holocaust

296 pages, Hardcover

First published August 20, 2007

Reviews

[ginger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was looking for something more like Jean-François Steiner's Treblinka but this seems to be more fiction than non-fiction.