A Time to Speak

By: Helen Lewis

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Paperback | 30 September 2010

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'Helen Lewis survived the greatest nightmare ever dreamed by man. Her story is appalling, mesmerising, and one reads with increasing gratitude for her clarity, honesty and courage.' Ian McEwan

Helen Lewis, a young student of dance in Prague at the outbreak of WW2 was herded, like Madeleine Albright, into the Terezin ghetto, then shipped to Auschwitz, in 1942. Separated from her family, she struggled to survive amidst the carnage of The Final Solution. How she did so, and what she did in order to survive, is a gripping story, told with wit, candour, and controlled anger.

Widely praised by many, including Jennifer Johnston, Michael Longley, and the Guardian, and hailed by the Independent for its 'elegiac simplicity and lucidity', A Time to Speak is an elegant memoir of the Holocaust, humbling in its freedom from bitterness, which will leave no reader unmoved.

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'What singles this book out from other first-hand accounts of the Holocaust is Lewis's ability to see humanity where, in all fairness, she had no right to see it ... she refuses to dehumanise the very people who were trying to dehumanise her - a rare achievement for someone in her position.' Guardian 'To bear witness as she does - in wonderfully graceful language - to the very nadir of human experience is an heroic act ... a wonderful book.' Irish Press 'It is a story of almost unbelievable suffering, but it is told in such a way as to leave the reader almost exhilarated ... remarkable for its elegiac simplicity and lucidity, its irresistible momentum, its formidable integrity and its impressive lack of self-pity or rancour. It is short, approachable, gripping and patently honest ... everybody should read it.' Independent

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