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I've read many holocaust stories over the years; this excerpt has horrors that I'd never come across before. I found the writing to be gripping as well. I was not involved in the process of bringing it to the newspaper, and I'm looking forward to the second excerpt this Sunday. For more about how the book came to light, Mayborn writer in residence George Getschow had this to say recently. The story also has a video segment attached. (Illustration by Michael Hogue/DMN Staff) |
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Posted by Mitch Land @ 6:02 AM Thu, Aug 16, 2007
From the first time I saw film clips on my 1958 B&W TV of Hitler ranting and raving in German through my first reading of Exodus to reading O Jerusalem to watching other films of that period and after touring the Washington DC Holocaust museum and the holocaust museum in Jerusalem, I didn't think there was much more I could come to understand about this tragically defining period in human history. But I was wrong. "William and Rosalie" has opened my eyes to a completely different view of this ugly blight on our world. The fact that there are a few happy endings out of this tragedy and that I got to actually meet this remarkable couple show me that they, at least, got "the last word" in a sense. And that word includes hope. Also, Michael Hogue's illustrations sent a chill through me. He truly captured the haunting cruelty and hope that struggle within the pages of this remarkable testament.