Micheels, Louis J, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives, Netherlands--Ethnic relations 

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly A Dutch-born Jew imprisoned at Auschwitz, and now a psychiatry professor at Yale's School of Medicine, Micheels here writes a conventional Holocaust autobiography. The viciousness of the Nazis, their humiliation of prisoners and the paradoxical cruelties and kindnesses paid by camp inmates to each other--all are familiar, if harrowing themes, in such memoirs. But the love story Micheels chronicles sets his book apart: both captured and imprisoned together, the author and his fiancee endured heroic struggles. And yet, when reunited in Holland after the war, they found themselves altered so radically by wartime trauma that marriage was unthinkable. Jewish Book Club alternate. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Forty-four years later, Micheels narrates his experiences as a Dutch doctor who for over three years survived a series of Dutch, Polish, and German concentration camps. His training as a doctor and the deep affection he felt for his fiancee, Nora, who accompanied him to Auschwitz, are among the most important explanations he suggests for his ability to survive the Holocaust. Micheels's training as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst makes this memoir unique. He focuses, for example, upon his inability to mourn his parents death and the demise of his and Nora's relationship after both survived the Holocaust. A moving account. - Ann H. Sullivan, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll. Lib., Dryden, N.Y. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.