The Commandant of Lubizec

A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard

De: Patrick Hicks

Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen

After the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they quickly began persecuting anyone who was Jewish. Millions were shoved into ghettos and forced to live under the swastika. Death camps were built and something called "Operation Reinhard" was set into motion. Its goal? To murder all the Jews of Poland.

The Commandant of Lubizec is a harrowing account of a death camp that never actually existed but easily could have in the Nazi state. It is a sensitive, accurate retelling of a place that went about the business of genocide. Told as a historical account in a documentary style, it explores the atmosphere of a death camp. It describes what it was like to watch the trains roll in, and it probes into the mind of its commandant, Hans-Peter Guth. How could he murder thousands of people each day and then go home to laugh with his children?

This is not only an unflinching portrayal of the machinery of the gas chambers, it is also the story of how prisoners burned the camp to the ground and fled into the woods. It is a story of rebellion and survival. It is a story of life amid death.

With a strong eye toward the history of the Holocaust, The Commandant of Lubizec compels us to look at these extermination centers anew. It disquiets us with the knowledge that similar events actually took place in camps like Belzec, Sobibór, and Treblinka.

The history of Lubizec, although a work of fiction, is a chillingly blunt distillation of real-life events. It asks we look again at "Operation Reinhard". It brings voice to the silenced. It demands we bear witness.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2014 Patrick Hicks (P)2018 Steerforth Press LLC

Good book, horrible truths

This book was worth it if only for the lovely fantasy at the end of what the Shoah would be like in reverse. It’s only a dream, but I never considered joy in equal measure to so much sorrow.

riveting WW2 drama told with multiple points of view

The characters of the story come alive as the story takes you into the heart of the Nazi death camps.

Very heart warming

Such a great book. You won’t be disappointed if you get book, I couldn’t stop listening