Motherhood in a death camp ...

Motherhood in a death camp ...

Kinderzimmer (Paperback)

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Years after the fact, Suzanne toured high schools to tell young people of today what happened to her when she was about their age. Pregnant just three months, she arrives at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She tells, and that day, a young girl asked a question which the disorder. So plunged into doubt, she remembers. And tells.

Arrest. The rise in the train. Lincompréhension. Impossibility to be aware of where the leads that train. The belief in humanity of those on whom his fate. Arrival at camp. Lincompréhension again. Doubt. The observation. And, gradually, insidiously, understanding, the horror, the will to abandon. A pregnancy not really like the others, in a context that makes possible lattachement dune mother to her child growing up in it because there is nothing else that his own death eventually. The desire to hide his condition. Fear of what quengendrerait this birth. And the birth in the camp. And the discovery of a place almost incongruous in this context: Kinderzimmer, the childrens room. She realizes, then, what is not the only young mom in the camp.

Far from a classic story of young mom, this novel is heavy, of course, the mood is dark, while quhorreur nest, fear, despair, and yet Suzanne also speaks of the strong relations that tie the victims of the camp, and absurdities that dot daily. A daily gesture which everything becomes crucial, where mistrust is required, but where the abandonment is often necessary.

I do not reveal anything said of his return home after the camps since his story begins years later and the difficulty to understand the horror of what other quon lived.

A beautiful novel certainly not a leader Doeuvre where emotions are true, without pathos, without pretense, doubled dune fine psychological analysis. Lived a very interesting interior may not be as poignant quun "true" story of surviving the camps, he fact that only comes here "only" of a novel.