An Underground Life by Gad Beck6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt a bit disappointed with this book. If anyone reading this runs across information regarding the second book, PLEASE message me. I would very much like to read the continuation of his story. It is definitely not what I was expecting from a Holocaust memoir and the Epilogue in my edition mentions there is a second part to his memoirs but I have been unable to locate it. I guess the fact that he was able to escape the camps in addition to his gay (meaning happy here) outlook on life allowed him to recall such a horrific period of history with such frivolity and good-naturedness. But still, he managed to do significant work in the underground freeing others. He had and made extensive connection and largely survived because he maintained an underground existence. ![]() Gad Beck was lucky enough to survive a Holocaust double whammy gay Jew combo and not even get sent to any of the camps. This CANT be a Holocaust memoir, can it? Apparently it is. I was expecting something along the lines of other Holocaust books I have read, namely a depressing, heart-wrenching tale of the depravity of the human race. We were given an extensive list to choose from and I picked this one because we have been told how if the Nazis had actually exterminated the Jews, gays would have been next. I had to read this book for a class on the Holocaust. ![]()
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