{"product_id":"into-the-tunnel-the-brief-life-of-marion-samuel-1931-1943-9780805089141","title":"Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Sixty years after her death, when G?tz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn what is as much a detective story as a historical reconstruction, Aly, praised for his \"formidable research skills\" (Christopher Browning), traces the Samuel family's agonizing decline from shop owners to forced laborers to deportees. Against all odds, Aly manages to recover expropriation records, family photographs, and even a trace of Marion's voice in the premonition she confided to a school friend: \"People disappear,\" she said, \"into the tunnel.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gripping account of a family caught in the tightening grip of persecution, \u003ci\u003eInto the Tunnel \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful reminder that the millions of Nazi victims were also, each one, an individual life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGötz Aly\u003c\/b\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eHitler's Beneficiaries\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArchitects of Annihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books, is one of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. He has been a visiting fellow at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and currently teaches at the Free University of Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461207527698,"sku":"9780805089141","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a1cdd5b-38ea-4836-820f-8ea06214d96c.jpg?v=1730059885","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/into-the-tunnel-the-brief-life-of-marion-samuel-1931-1943-9780805089141","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}