Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges

Title: Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges
Author: Glenn Lovell
ISBN: 9780299228347
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Cinema: 1691745
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publisher Description: Henry Herzog survived the liquidation of the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland and endured terrible hardships in forced labor camps. He documents the increasing severity of Nazi rule in Rzeszow and the complicity of the Jewish council (the Judenrat) and Jewish police in the round-ups for deportation to the Belzec concentration camp. One of these deportations took his parents to their deaths. His brothers were caught, tortured, and killed by the Gestapo. Herzog and his sister escaped to Hungary where although she found refuge he was betrayed, arrested, and finally put on a train to the concentration camps. Escaping by jumping off the train and fleeing into the Tatra Mountains, he joined a group of Russian partisans to fight the Nazis.
1995 paperback, Saga Publishers / Folio Private"