A journalist Hugo Coya book tells the exciting and unknown history of the Peruvian victims of the Holocaust.
on the extermination of the Jews was written as a book on the topic might be somewhat monotonous. However, there is always an unprecedented angle to explore, nothing new to add or a different story that engage readers. Nonfiction texts have this feature.
Following a tour of the famous death camp of Auschwitz, the journalist Hugo Coya discovered that there were stories of Jews Peruvians who had never been told. It all started, he says, with a question he asked the guide: "Do you know if the victims were Peruvian?". The guy did not respond, but the computer was at the museum: Of course there were Peruvians, 22 in total!
What began as a curiosity ended with the writing of a book: final station. The exciting and unknown history of Peruvians who saved hundreds of lives in World War II (Aguilar, Lima, 2010). We are facing an exhaustive journalistic research, a direct consequence of the smell of a keen observer, which is or should be the primary attribute of a journalist.
The book deals with the fate of five families during the mad Peruvian Nazi persecution against Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities. The reader may imagine gruesome stories and by the nature of dark matter, but it is not. Terminus no ideological affiliation and can be read as a testament to human nature and not just as a story of Jews.
The book written by Hugo Coya is at the same time, a kind of reckoning with the past. On the one hand, lays bare the shameful actions of governments on Jewish issues. In 1939, Coya account, the government of Oscar R. Benavides sent through the Foreign Ministry a secret circular to all its diplomatic missions, which were given expressly prohibited visa to persons professing the Jewish religion. Three years later, in 1942, the government of Manuel Prado rejected the shipment of Jewish orphans (between 4 and 10 years) from France to be taken in by families of the same religion in Peru. The children eventually died in Auschwitz gas chambers.
On the other hand, rescues unsung heroes who made it possible, thanks to its moral and physical strength, the survival of thousands of their peers. The most poignant story is that of Blanca Paulina Magdalena Truel Larraburre, an extraordinary woman who studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. A German truck hit her and left her disabled, which is not impeded development as a thoughtful and courageous woman. He was part of the French resistance, with whom he collaborated falsifying passports and hiding persecuted. He was brutally tortured by the SS, but never confessed where their friends were hiding. He died while fleeing the Nazis, the same day that the Soviets came to Germany.
As touching as the story of Magdalena is the Lima brothers Eleazar and Jajibo Assa, his parents Leon and Rebecca, his cousin Robert and the mother of this: Esther. They were transferred Marseille, the detention camp at Drancy, and from there to the camps of Sobibor and Majdanek. Jajibo Elezen and participated in the famous escape of Sabibor, 14 October 1943. They were killed between the fences, in an attempt to make way for the prisoners who came back. There is also the story of Hector David Levy, his wife Irene and their children Michele Weill (7 months) and Gérard (4 years), who died in Auschwitz. They also killed other Peruvians: Jaime (68 years), Rosita and Florita Lindow. The three were produced hats and successful people in Paris before the war, until the Nazis ended their dreams. Another disturbing story is that of Victoria Barouh (Or Victoria Weissberg), then 19 years. His family lived in Trujillo at the beginning of XXI century, where he managed a department store and stocked. She is the sole survivor of the Holocaust Peruvian. She was saved because it was sent to pick potatoes in a field near Auschwitz. His story is written in first person and it is difficult to remain calm when you read it.
final station of , journalism students can sacer important lessons about how to obtain reliable sources, how to associate data, how to track witnesses and efficiently using networks such as facebook or twitter. Or rather, how to approach the historical truth with patience, quality and professional expertise.
on the extermination of the Jews was written as a book on the topic might be somewhat monotonous. However, there is always an unprecedented angle to explore, nothing new to add or a different story that engage readers. Nonfiction texts have this feature.
Following a tour of the famous death camp of Auschwitz, the journalist Hugo Coya discovered that there were stories of Jews Peruvians who had never been told. It all started, he says, with a question he asked the guide: "Do you know if the victims were Peruvian?". The guy did not respond, but the computer was at the museum: Of course there were Peruvians, 22 in total!
What began as a curiosity ended with the writing of a book: final station. The exciting and unknown history of Peruvians who saved hundreds of lives in World War II (Aguilar, Lima, 2010). We are facing an exhaustive journalistic research, a direct consequence of the smell of a keen observer, which is or should be the primary attribute of a journalist.
The book deals with the fate of five families during the mad Peruvian Nazi persecution against Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities. The reader may imagine gruesome stories and by the nature of dark matter, but it is not. Terminus no ideological affiliation and can be read as a testament to human nature and not just as a story of Jews.
The book written by Hugo Coya is at the same time, a kind of reckoning with the past. On the one hand, lays bare the shameful actions of governments on Jewish issues. In 1939, Coya account, the government of Oscar R. Benavides sent through the Foreign Ministry a secret circular to all its diplomatic missions, which were given expressly prohibited visa to persons professing the Jewish religion. Three years later, in 1942, the government of Manuel Prado rejected the shipment of Jewish orphans (between 4 and 10 years) from France to be taken in by families of the same religion in Peru. The children eventually died in Auschwitz gas chambers.
On the other hand, rescues unsung heroes who made it possible, thanks to its moral and physical strength, the survival of thousands of their peers. The most poignant story is that of Blanca Paulina Magdalena Truel Larraburre, an extraordinary woman who studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. A German truck hit her and left her disabled, which is not impeded development as a thoughtful and courageous woman. He was part of the French resistance, with whom he collaborated falsifying passports and hiding persecuted. He was brutally tortured by the SS, but never confessed where their friends were hiding. He died while fleeing the Nazis, the same day that the Soviets came to Germany.
As touching as the story of Magdalena is the Lima brothers Eleazar and Jajibo Assa, his parents Leon and Rebecca, his cousin Robert and the mother of this: Esther. They were transferred Marseille, the detention camp at Drancy, and from there to the camps of Sobibor and Majdanek. Jajibo Elezen and participated in the famous escape of Sabibor, 14 October 1943. They were killed between the fences, in an attempt to make way for the prisoners who came back. There is also the story of Hector David Levy, his wife Irene and their children Michele Weill (7 months) and Gérard (4 years), who died in Auschwitz. They also killed other Peruvians: Jaime (68 years), Rosita and Florita Lindow. The three were produced hats and successful people in Paris before the war, until the Nazis ended their dreams. Another disturbing story is that of Victoria Barouh (Or Victoria Weissberg), then 19 years. His family lived in Trujillo at the beginning of XXI century, where he managed a department store and stocked. She is the sole survivor of the Holocaust Peruvian. She was saved because it was sent to pick potatoes in a field near Auschwitz. His story is written in first person and it is difficult to remain calm when you read it.
final station of , journalism students can sacer important lessons about how to obtain reliable sources, how to associate data, how to track witnesses and efficiently using networks such as facebook or twitter. Or rather, how to approach the historical truth with patience, quality and professional expertise.
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