Muselmann at the Water Cooler / / Eli Pfefferkorn.
A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds is that the concentration camp Muselmann, who has lost his hunger for life an...
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Superior document: | Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History |
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Place / Publishing House: | Brighton, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, 2011. |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 pages). |
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