- Gerald Jacobs
Gerald Jacobs is a British
author and the literary editor of theJewish Chronicle . His book "Sacred Games ", an account of a HungarianJew , Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer, who survived Adolf Hitler's death camps, was published in1995 .ynopsis
This book distils the brutality of the Holocaust into the experiences of a real-life individual.
It is the story of Miklos Hammer, a Hungarian
Jew , and his fight to survive his conscription into the Hungarian Jewishforced labour Battalion in1944 , his life in a Jewishghetto , and his eventual sufferings inBirkenau .The nightmare train journeys, the work, the casual death and torture, and the awful routine of existence inside the camps are all recounted.
The book describes how a chance meeting with an Englishman led Hammer into a new and unexpected form of
oppression .Bibliography
*"Sacred Games", Gerald Jacobs, Penguin, 1995, ISBN 0-14-024243-0
*"Judi Dench - the authorized biography"
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