One Man's Tale Reminds Us Of The Millions Who Died Unknown

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	• Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 1999 - 408 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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One Man's Tale Reminds Us Of The Millions Who Died Unknown

We have read about the millions who suffered, died and were forgotten, and sometimes the sheer number numbs us to their suffering. Yet here, one man steps forward, like Ivan Denisovich, and tells us his story, and makes it all real again. Dr. Bardach has been able to convey a difficult, sad, tragic experience into a eminently readable account that does not leave one depressed by its witnessing of the dark angels of our nature, but treasure the ability of hope and humanity to struggle on and find something to strive for against all hope.

A Well Told Account From A Little Known Point-Of-View

Imagine fleeing to Russia to escape the Nazis, being drafted by the Red Army, accused of treason and narrowly avoiding execution on the spot, sentenced to the Gulag and winding up in Idaho. What a journey! Along with "My Just War" and "Babi Yar," I think this is a strong addition to the record of a history most Americans know very little of: Jewish and Russian experiences of World War Two.

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Cant Put it Down

All the things that I have ever heard from my grandparents are true. I never thought that Stalin and the Soviet Empire were so evil until I read this book. How could the Soviet Soldiers be considered human for the terrible conditions they left their prisoners in. All we can ever do is pray and hope we learn from history before history learns from us.

A wonderful memoir of a descent into the maelstrom

Shalamov, Ginzburg and now Bardach can join this select group of voices from Kolyma, Stalin's frozen prison. Like Ginzburg, Bardach writes and survives based on his inexhaustable humanity. Bardach is not the stylist of a Shalamov( but few are)but the sheer force of the experience and his strength of character carry the narrative forward. I wish Bardach, Ginzburg and Shalamov were required reading in high school and college. Their experiences might change our self-absorbed perspectives. Highly recommended.

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My teacher continues to teach - now all of us.

Dr. Janusz Bardach was my teacher and mentor in facial plastic surgery at the University of Iowa in the mid seventies. He did not speak of his survival of the Gulag at that time. We his residents knew he had a horrific story to tell and thank God he has now done it. We learned so much from him as a surgeon and now know much more of him as a man - we were blessed.

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