The seventh cross
By: [by] Anna Seghers [pseud.] Tr. from the German by James A. Galston.
Contributors: Galston, James A. b. 1881.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Description: Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist, Heisler, survives, not by cunning or superior skill, but through the complicity of a web of common citizens unwilling to bow to the Gestapo and forced to make decisions that will determine the character of their future lives.