The Big Trip Up Yonder

By Kurt Vonnegut

If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it ... it is much too good for anyone else!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Endymion Press
• Release date: Sep 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781531297985

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""

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[Glenn Strueby · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Janusz Korczak was the director of a Jewish orphanage who, during the Holocaust, refused to abandon his orphans when they were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Though he was given the opportunity to live, Korczak turned it down. He willingly walked with the young, terrified orphans to the gas chamber, doing his best to comfort them as they died. He died with them, using his last breath to soothe their fear.
The children were dressed in their best clothes, and each carried a blue knapsack and a favorite book or toy. Joshua Perle, an eyewitness whose wartime writings were saved in the Ringelblum Archive, described the procession of Korczak and the children through the Ghetto to the Umschlagplatz (deportation point to the death camps):
"Janusz Korczak was marching, his head bent forward, holding the hand of a child, without a hat, a leather belt around his waist, and wearing high boots. A few nurses were followed by two hundred children, dressed in clean and meticulously cared for clothes, as they were being carried to the altar."
The Nazis and their collaborators murdered 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, and also many disabled, Romani, and LGBT people. Over a million of those murdered were children. Today is Yom HaShoa (Holocaust Memorial Day), and we remember.
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