The cap
Subtitle: the price of a life / by Roman Frister ; translated by Hillel Halkin
Contributors: Halkin, Hillel, 1939-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Frister, Roman; Mauthausen (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives; Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Biography; Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives; Biography
Description: "The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into the darkest terrain imaginable, that of a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings. Roman Frister's memoir of his life before, during, and after his imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps sparked enormous controversy upon its publication in Israel and went on to become an international bestseller.

With bone-chilling candor, Frister illustrates how the impulse to live unhinges all our comfortable notions of morality, blurring the boundary between victim and oppressor, dissociating heroism from survival, and leaving absolutely no room for martyrdom."--BOOK JACKET.