The Human Race

About this book

Arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau Robert Antelme recovered his freedom a year later when Franois Mitterand visiting the camp in an official capacity recognized the dying Antelme and had him spirited to Paris. Antelmes story of his experiences in Germany--his only book--indelibly marked an entire generation "a work written without hatred a work of boundless compassion such as that is to be found only in the great Russians." Also available: On the Human Race: Essays and Commentary