Title: Siebente Brunnen
First published: 1976
Description: An Austrian Jew and photojournalist who was interned at 20 different Nazi camps between 1939 and 1945, Wander (1917-2006) first published this loosely structured novel in East Germany in 1970. Spare, haunting anecdotes memorialize Jews who died senseless, undignified deaths in Nazi concentration camps. The book is much more than a catalogue of horrors and of courage, as Wanders's narrator struggles to find the language to describe what he has seen.
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Buchenwald (Concentration camp), Concentration camps, Concentration camp inmates, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction, Fiction, historical, Jews, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, World war, 1939-1945, fiction