Author: Ilkiv, Mykhailo
Title: Nimetski Kontsentratsiini Laheri. Spohad (German Concentration Camps. Memories)
Description: Niu Iork (New York): Vidannia kol. Ukrainskykh polit-viazniv, 1983. Hardcover. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [6], 7-104; blue buckram over boards; gilt title and decorations to front board; small scratch to fore-edge of front board and minor wear to tips of spine and corners; small bookshop sticker to first blank leaf; illustrated with 3 drawings and a facsimile document; in about near fine condition. In Ukrainian and English. The book, written by a former prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps, describes Mykhailo Ilkiv's escape from Ukraine after the German-Polish War in 1939, his time at a refugee Camp No. 23 at Watenstedt, his arrest by the Gestapo in 1941 and imprisonment at concentration camps at Halendorf and Oranienburg, the conditions and life at the camps, his almost dying of starvation in 1944, and his ultimate release by the American Occupational Forces at the end of the Second World War. The main part of the book is in Ukrainian, with an abbreviated translation of the chapters in English at the end. Ill.: 0. 2.

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