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It Kept Us Alive
The book demonstrates how humor helped in coping with the terrible reality of the Holocaust period. Interviews with survivors describe horrific events, intertwined with macabre humor. The author classifies the types of humor and jokes, and studies their respective functions in the ghettos, concentration camps and death camps. Included in the book are humorous ditties, songs and cabaret sketches, as well as the unique stories of two ghetto clowns.
440 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2009
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August 4, 2019
Un tema tabú y poco abordado, el humor en los campos de extermino en el Holocausto es tratado maravillosamente en este libro que a través de escritos y testimonios de sobrevivientes, ofrece perspectivas nuevas de la complejidad de la Shoah.
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