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...year-old "Mula" Pisar, the terror began on June 22, 1941. On that day, after two years of Soviet occupation, "the bad was succeeded by the worst." Germany turned on its ally to the East and the Red Army crumbled under the onslaught. Nazi shock troops swept into Bialystok, the city with the second-largest Jewish population in Poland, and wasted no time implementing the Fubrer's plans. On the first Friday of the occupation, Pisar recalls, over a thousand Bialystok Jews were herded into the city's Great Synagogue, which was then set aflame. The following Sabbath, hundreds...
...Samuel Pisar's Of Blood and Hope soared to the top of bestseller lists throughout Europe. The book war certainly not the first autobiography to be written about Nazi death camps, and while the unexpected twists of Pisar's subsequent life made his tale more dramatic than most, that along did not account for the book's rampant popularity. Unlike most Holocaust memoirs. Of Blood and Hope was not just a reminiscence, but a warning. The book, like its author, was a product of the past, projected onto the future...
...words, Samuel Pisar is a "post-national man." A renowned international lawyer who helped lay the foundation for detente, Pisar commutes between four continents, regularly crosses datelines and time zones, and speaks seven languages fluently, though he considers none his native tongue. Born in Poland, a resident of Paris and New York, Pisar was made an American citizen in 1961 by a special act of Congress...
...Pisar's self-appelation accurately describes his present life, it is drawn from his past, and thus encapsulizes his vision of the future. Born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1929, he lived through Soviet occupation and Nazi terror, spending four years in Maidanek, Dachau and Auschwitz and escaping death only through a combination of luck and nerve. One of the youngest survivors of the concentration camps, Pisar lost his entire family to the war and was the only student in his grammar school of 900 to survive. Although he eventually earned doctorates from Harvard and the Sorbonne and rose to intellectual...
...Pisar's recollections of the ghetto remain vivid. It was here; on his thirteenth birthday, that he was bar mitzvahed in a shabby synagogue in full sight of the pacing Nazi guards. It was here that he first met Ben, the lifelong friend who accompanied him through the camps and with whom he made a solemn pact to survive. And it was here that his father kissed the family goodbye and left home for the last time. A few months later, the ghetto was razed and those who survived were put on a train for the camps...