The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings
The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil.

The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a highly literate style. Paul Schaffer spent his teenage years on the run from the Nazis in Austria, Belgium and France, and then in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1945. He survived to become a successful industrialist who was honoured by the government of France. Paul Schaffer’s story provides insights into a middle-class Jewish childhood in pre-war Vienna, attitudes to Jewish refugees in Vichy France, arrest and detention in France, survival in Auschwitz, and the return to post-war France to face the challenges of re-integration into French society.



Published with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
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The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings
The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil.

The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a highly literate style. Paul Schaffer spent his teenage years on the run from the Nazis in Austria, Belgium and France, and then in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1945. He survived to become a successful industrialist who was honoured by the government of France. Paul Schaffer’s story provides insights into a middle-class Jewish childhood in pre-war Vienna, attitudes to Jewish refugees in Vichy France, arrest and detention in France, survival in Auschwitz, and the return to post-war France to face the challenges of re-integration into French society.



Published with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
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The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings

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The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings

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The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil.

The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a highly literate style. Paul Schaffer spent his teenage years on the run from the Nazis in Austria, Belgium and France, and then in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1945. He survived to become a successful industrialist who was honoured by the government of France. Paul Schaffer’s story provides insights into a middle-class Jewish childhood in pre-war Vienna, attitudes to Jewish refugees in Vichy France, arrest and detention in France, survival in Auschwitz, and the return to post-war France to face the challenges of re-integration into French society.



Published with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550654134
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Publication date: 01/28/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 212
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

France named Paul Schaffer an Officer of the Legion of Honour and an Officer of the National Order of Merit. He lives in Paris.
Women’s rights advocate, former Minister of Health of France, and former president of the European Parliament, Simone Veil was incarcerated with the author in Auschwitz.

Table of Contents

Foreword Serge Klarsfeld 11

Introduction Simone Veil 13

Author's Preface 21

My Childhood in Vienna 23

My Escape from Austria 45

Deportation 61

My Rebirth 96

My Return 107

Postscript

"Time Must be Given Time" 139

Letters from Teachers and Students, and Drawings by Students 143

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