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A vividly written personal account of a survivor of the Belgian detention camp Merxplas, one of the many camps in which European countries interned refugees fleeing from Germany and Austria before World War II. For most of the internees the camps turned out to be "next-to-final solutions" when the Nazi armies overrun Europe. This book, based on notes and diaries by the author, describes in moving detail how the refugees, including lawyers, doctors, artists, as well as artisans, merchants, and civil servants, tried to establish a democratic community and prepare themselves for a new life overseas - a dream that for most remained unfulfilled.…mehr

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A vividly written personal account of a survivor of the Belgian detention camp Merxplas, one of the many camps in which European countries interned refugees fleeing from Germany and Austria before World War II. For most of the internees the camps turned out to be "next-to-final solutions" when the Nazi armies overrun Europe. This book, based on notes and diaries by the author, describes in moving detail how the refugees, including lawyers, doctors, artists, as well as artisans, merchants, and civil servants, tried to establish a democratic community and prepare themselves for a new life overseas - a dream that for most remained unfulfilled.
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The Author: Joseph Fabry was one of the few who was able to escape the «next-to-final solution» by receiving his American visa in time (an odyssey described in his book One and One Make Three published under his pen name Peter Fabrizius). In the United States he became a script writer at the Office of War Information, later Voice of America, and for 25 years was editor at the University of California at Berkeley. He became interested in Dr. Viktor Frankl's meaning- and value-oriented logotherapy and founded the Institute of Logotherapy and is editor of its journal, The International Forum for Logotherapy, and has authored three books on that subject. He has written about the meaning of the holocaust and often is invited to lecture and be on panels dealing with the subject.