{"product_id":"the-boy-a-holocaust-story","title":"The Boy: A Holocaust Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA gravel road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Boy: A Holocaust Story\u003c\/em\u003e, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals – both Jews and Nazis – associated with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Boy\u003c\/em\u003e presents the stories of three Nazi criminals, ranging in status from SS sergeant to low-ranking SS officer to SS general. It is also the story of two Jewish victims, a teenage girl and a young boy, who encounter these Nazis in Warsaw in the spring of 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is remarkable in its scope, picking up the lives of these participants in the years preceding World War I and following them to their deaths. One of the Nazis managed to stay at large for twenty-two years. One of the survivors lived long enough to lose a son in the Yom Kippur War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNearly sixty photographs dispersed throughout help narrate these five lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e And, in keeping with the emotional immediacy of those photographs, Porat has deliberately used a narrative style that, drawing upon extensive research, experience, and oral interviews, places the reader in the middle of unfolding events.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dan Porat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42143037030569,"sku":"","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/boy_d79389b9-e427-4170-8b9f-16371c402151.jpg?v=1650159102","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-boy-a-holocaust-story","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}