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BELTON, NEIL / REF. HELEN BAMBER Helen Bamber - a Life Against Cruelty - the Good Listener
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Pub, 1998. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0297819046 1998 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... very light tiny stain top edge ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... DJ slight faint shelf edgewear ... not noticeable inside new sleeve ... Gift Giving quality .. This is a handsome book, Chocolate Brown textured boards , with Gold gilt titles impressed onto spine & red endpapges, in matching Brown & Red photographic jacket ... Irish-born Author Neil Belton has written with enormous sensitivity and tact ... a deeply moving account of the character of Helen Bamber ... one good and complex human being who has battled throughout her life to bring the dark side of history into the light ... It is a remarkable and important book ... Helen Bamber went to the Belsen Nazi Concentration Camp after the Second World War, in 1945 , to work with the survivors ... She was only 20 years old ... Since then, her life has been involved with the worst of the worst of the past 50 years ... In 1985, at the age of 60 , she set up an organisation devoted to helping victims of torture, and to bearing witness against the fact of torture ... This book shows us how an ordinary woman becomes compelled to work to resist cruelty ... Helen grew up in London in an atmosphere where the Holocaust seemed inevitable ... Her father, a Polish Jew , was obsessed by the fascist threat ... At bedtime, he would read to young Helen from Goebbels' speaches, teaching her and warning her how corrupting and manipulative language could be ... A beloved aunt of Helen's died in a Nazi air-raid over London ... Helen met her husband on New Year's Eve, 1945 ... He had escaped Nazi Germany after seeing his father murdered on Kristallnacht ... Helen then travelled to Belsen just after the war, where she dedicated herself to caring for the young survivors of the camps, known then as ' the Boys ' ... Having worked for years with victims of extreme cruelty, she then ' branched out ' , and began to look into the areas of ' treatments ' of ' patients ' by unscrupulous medical scientists, carrying out experiments on human beings ; the neglect of children in hospitals at that time ; and the ill-use of political prisoners ... She worked for and was profoundly influenced by physician Dr. Maurice Pappworth , who exposed unethical medical experiments and the use of people as research ' material ' ... In the 1960s, Helen campaigned to allow mothers to saty with their sick children in hospital, which had not been permitted until then ... and later, at a time when military regimes were siezing power in many countries, she became a central force in Amnesty International ... Bamber knew that on her own she could not change the world, but she could be a bearer of evidence ... having seen the unbelievable cruelty of the Nazis, she could look at other areas of cruelty, and try to undo the work of the modern-day torturer ... That was her aim in setting up the Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture ... Her real life story touches on events from the Second World War German Concentration camps , to Algeria, Chile, the independent African States ; as well as the USSR and Israel, and postwar Britain and Germany ... This book reconstructs the stages of Bamber's strange self-education ... Since her openness to others has been one of her greatest skills this book cannot be just her own story ... The narrative at times moves away from her, in order to capture what she was hearing ... The stories of those who left their impressions on her are unforgettable records of needless and meaningless suffering ... " The Good Listener - Helen Bamber - A Life Against Cruelty " ... by Neil Belton ... published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson , London ... 1998 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... ***. New/New .
Offered for US$ 29.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 4785a
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