The Last Survivor Paperback by Timothy W. Ryback

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2000-11-14)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679758266
• Item Weight: 206.25 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 12.95 x 1.27 cm

In The Last Survivor, journalist Timothy Ryback explores the surprising--and often disturbing--ways the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of us associate with gas chambers and mass graves. A grandmother recalls the echo of wooden shoes on cobblestone, the clip-clop of inmates marched from boxcars to barracks under the cover of night. A mother-to-be opts to deliver in a neighboring town, so that her child's birth certificate will not be stamped DACHAU. An "SS baby," now middle-aged, wonders about the father he never knew. And should you visit Dachau, you will meet Martin Zaidenstadt, an 87 year-old who accosts tourists with a first-hand account of the camp before its liberation in 1945. Beautifully written, compassionate, wise, The Last Survivor takes us to a place that bears the mark of Cain--and a people unwilling to be defined by the past, yet painfully unable to forget.

About the Author

Timothy Ryback lives in Austria.