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Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka Paperback – June 21, 1995

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Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.
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"Mr. Glazer waited one generation to give us a crystal clear account of the Treblinka Nazi hell. The message he conveys to us in his very personal way is: the most horrible thing about this Jewish catastrophe is not remembering it, but that it happened." —Arnost Lustig

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This book is the author's memoir of his deportation from Prague to Treblinka, his ten-month conscription as a 'work Jew' at the camp, his escape during the uprising of 1943, and his survival of the war as a foreign worker in Nazi Germany. This powerful document appears for the first time in English in Roslyn Theobald's fluid translation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Northwestern University Press; 1st edition (June 21, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810111691
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810111691
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.75 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019
    "Trap With a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka” by Richard Glazar (195 pages, 1992). Glazar, one of only a few dozen to survive the Treblinka and the Revolt of August 1943, provides testimony on the annihilation of an estimated 900,000 Jews at this death camp.

    The author documents horrors witnessed in a rare first-hand account; two in particular stand out to this reader. The first (pages 32-33) is his depiction, perhaps a misplaced confession, of what happens as Glazar escorts an older woman from a transport to the “infirmary” where she is put to a certain death. The other is his description of what typically occurs after an unloading of a transport, excerpted here: “… All of the bodies are lying there lined up so neatly along the entire length of the platform, their feet toward the wall of barracks and their heads toward the cars. They are no longer so horrible. They are lumps. Handle them like lumps. The moment you look any one of them as an individual, you’re lost. No, you can’t do that; you can never look. The motionless eyes—I always get caught, cannot escape them, I get trapped, there are eyes everywhere, all of them staring at me, getting larger and larger, already blocking out foreheads, entire faces, resting on chins.…” Glazar goes on to document the high stakes, breathless effort to revolt and ultimately escape; and the aftermath that resulted in him and his friend Karl Unger being sent to Mannheim to a German work camp until liberation.

    This important work is one of just a handful (e.g., Sam Willenberg, Yankel Wiernik, Chil Raichman, et al.) that document nazi atrocities at Treblinka, perpetrated upon an innocent, mostly but not exclusively Polish Jewish civilian population. The author writes in a restrained, gripping but not colorless style, each word finding a pained position in the reader's heart and consciousness. Required reading for any student of the Shoah.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2023
    The story alone is worth the read, as this is the most vivid and moving and astonishing tales of Holocaust survival you will ever read, but, on top of that, as work of literature, it's superb. The style, the structure, the narrative command are incredibly sophisticated and beautiful. The man was a true writer. The fact that his life ended the way it did is simply tragic.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013
    a great story of Human courage and endurance, one which reminds the world of things we must never forget. The author and his friend were exceptionally creative in figuring out how to survive in the worst of times. The book could use a little more editing for the English version.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2008
    Richard Glazar was one of the few people to have survived the Treblinka death camp. He was around 23 years old at the time. In his account of the 10 months or so that he was there, he does not dwell on things he did not have direct experience of, but describes what life was like for him and the people around him. He does not attempt to explain or analyze or give the big picture. This, for me, is what makes his story so powerful. Moreover, he does not overwhelm the reader with gruesome details, but at the same time manages to give the reader a strong understanding of the total inhumanity of the camp and its operations, and the casual and systematic brutality of the guards. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in a first hand account of this terrible time in world history. (For a very readable history of the Third Reich, I recommend Richard Evans' trilogy on the subject, beginning with "The Coming of the Third Reich".)
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022
    Incredible first hand account. Everyone should read this book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2016
    Excellent non-fiction, true story. The harrowing memoirs of Richard Glazar of his time in The hell of Treblinka. A slim volume, and a real page turner.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2019
    Story of the author's survival in the hell of Treblinka . . . and beyond. After what he went through, you have to wonder why he could ever smile again (as he does in the cover picture). What strength!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2008
    Glazar's account of survival in Treblinka is one of the three best accounts of death camp survival I have read. The others were written by Filip Muller and Rudolph Vrba about Auschwitz. Glazar's account is detailed and insightful...a can't put it down book.
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  • Jacqueline Perkin
    3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent factual book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2015
    Excellent factual book, but I though it glossed over some parts which I thought needed more pathos in description. However there was no maudling content in the book, just facts, which gave a very honest and dramatic description of the almost unbelievable events which took place in Treblinka.
  • Karleskind Philippe
    5.0 out of 5 stars lecture d'un témoignage saisissant !
    Reviewed in France on May 24, 2011
    Témoignage très vivant et très bien écrit qui mériterait une traduction en français car le vocabulaire employé est trop riche pour un francophone!