John R. Sack Libros

The worst fate for some Holocaust survivors was becoming like their oppressors. This book explores how and why this transformation occurred, along with the eventual cessation of such actions. It reveals a narrative of Jewish revenge and redemption, detailing the harrowing events at the end of World War II. In 1945, the Soviet Union, which occupied parts of Germany and Poland, created the Office of State Security, recruiting Holocaust survivors to enforce de-Nazification. This office targeted German civilians—99 percent of whom were innocent—rounding them up and sending them to prisons and concentration camps, where conditions were dire, leading to the deaths of 60,000 to 80,000 Germans. The author, John Sack, examines the motivations behind individuals who, after enduring immense suffering, inflicted similar horrors on others. He highlights figures like Lola, a young woman who became a prison commandant seeking vengeance for her family, and Pinek, her childhood friend who oversaw security but turned a blind eye to atrocities. Shlomo, another commandant, boasted of his brutal efficiency, revealing the chilling reality of the time. This compelling narrative is the result of seven years of research and interviews across multiple countries, shedding light on a largely untold story.

This is an authoritative assessment of thirteen of the most unimportant nations on the face of the earth. To achieve this milestone of journalism, John Sack traveled on innumerable planes, boats, trains, buses and one "bus", on the London tube, by muleback and by tonga, all the way from Lundy in the Bristol Channel to Sikkim on the borders of Tibet. The amazing fact is that all these countries exist. In adding not one word to the truth except his own relish and wit, John Sack has produced a wonderfully comic book.

Een jonge kluizenaar ontvangt eind 13e eeuw van een vertrouweling van St. Franciscus een geheimzinnige brief met onbegrijpelijke aanwijzingen, die gevaarlijk zou zijn voor de orde.

Er lebte die Armut und begeisterte die Menschen. Er trug die Wundmale des Herrn, nachdem ihm ein Engel mit brennenden Flügeln erschienen war – Franziskus.