FIGHTING FASCISM AND SURVIVING BUCHENWALD

Bension Varon Has Given The World Two Great Gifts: The Publication For The First Time Of The Remarkable 1946 Buchenwald Memoir Of Hans Bergas And A Riveting Account Of Bergas' Equally Remarkable Life. Bergas A Highly Secular German Jew Was First Known To Bension Varon As The Brother-In-Law Of His Wife'S Uncle. Far Transcending Genealogical Interest Varon'S Painstaking Research Has Revealed The Many Identities Of Hans Bergas: An Impassioned Social Democrat Who Battled Both Fascist And Communist Threats To Germany'S Fledgling Interwar Democracy; A Member Of The Anti-Nazi Resistance In France Who Aided Other Escapees Of The Nazi Regime; A Victim Of Capture And Savage Torture By The Gestapo; A Years-Long Political Inmate In Buchenwald Active In The Camp Resistance; And A Gifted Chronicler Of Life In Buchenwald And The Detail Of Nazi Depravity. In This Volume Bergas Emerges Like A Lost Treasure From History'S Attic Precious Both In Itself And For What It Reveals About Its Troubled Times.