{"product_id":"the-final-station-umschlagplatz-9780374154950","title":"The Final Station: Umschlagplatz","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Final Station: Umschlagplatz\u003c\/strong\u003e by Rymkiewicz, Jaroslaw M.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374154950.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Final Station records Jaroslaw Rymkiewiczs obsession, as a Christian Pole, with the extermination of the Jews during World War II before the eyes of the Poles and, often, with their collaboration. Rymkiewicz places the Umschlagplatz - the area of the Warsaw ghetto where Jews were gathered for deportation as part of the final solution - at the center of his narrative, because \"it happened right here, in the midst of our lives.\"\nJuxtaposing the past and the present, the personal and the historical, The Final Station includes a reconstruction of the minutest details of genocide (very much like Claude Lanzmanns Shoah) and a fictional account of an I. B. Singer-like summer at a resort near Warsaw where a group of Jewish and Christian friends meet shortly before the war for a last season of tennis, debating, and romance. In this relentlessly probing narrative, Rymkiewicz examines for the first time in all its complexity the Poles relationship to the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar Straus \u0026 Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118583078965,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374154953","price":22.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374154950_cfad5e90-a072-4097-b35f-c54966d85bd9.jpg?v=1777021266","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-final-station-umschlagplatz-9780374154950","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}