{"product_id":"the-soul-of-things-9781487525125","title":"The Soul of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exceptional document of an extraordinary life, \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title \u003ci\u003eAnima Rerum\u003c\/i\u003e, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, Germany, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soul of Things\u003c\/i\u003e combines a rare depiction of upper-middle-class Jewish life in pre-war Hungary with the chronicle of a woman’s deportation and survival in the camps. Fahidi is a gifted writer with a unique voice, full of wisdom, humanity, and flashes of dark humour. With an unsentimental, philosophical perspective, she recounts her journey from the Great Hungarian Plain to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the forced labour camp of Münchmühle, and back.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe English edition in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   Introduction  The Storyteller of the Shoah: Éva Fahidi and Anima Rerum Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor   Preface to the Hungarian Edition: ... because we cannot go on otherwise György Gábor    Preface to the German Edition Götz Aly   Anima Rerum: The Soul of Things   The Münchmüle Camp Fritz Brinkmann-Frisch   List of the 1,000 Women taken from Auschwitz to Allendorf, August 13, 1944\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409155957079,"sku":"9781487525125","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487525125.jpg?v=1730505673","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-soul-of-things-9781487525125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}