Fragments: Transcribing the Holocaust

Fragments: Transcribing the HolocaustI thought I knew that I would get through, but it was totally irrational and six million people didnt, and I am sure they thought the same. Anka Bergman, one of the three women who survived Auschwitz whose testimony (recorded in Cardiff, Wales) forms the basis of Frances Rapport's extraordinary "poetic transcriptions". She is "a sympathetic listener who can establish the necessary rapport to elicit information that many of those who suffered the shoah

ÒI thought I knew that I would get through, but it was totally irrational and six million people didnÕt, and I am sure they thought the same.Ó - Anka Bergman, one of the three women who survived Auschwitz whose testimony (recorded in Cardiff, Wales) forms the basis of Frances Rapport's extraordinary "poetic transcriptions". She is "a sympathetic listener who can establish the necessary rapport to elicit information that many of those who suffered the shoah have repressed for decades." (Leonard Mars) "These stories remind us what humans can inflict on each other, utterly negating our common humanity. But we also hear the human capacity to survive, to mutually aid, to continue to love and affirm life." (From the Foreword by Arthur W. Frank) -- ISBN: 978-09569473-9-0 -- Available on Amazon: print and Kindle editions. More Hafan Books at: www.lulu.com/hafan. Contact: [email protected]. All proceeds go to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group: www.swanseabassgroup.org