Humanitas Publishing House Fiction they are waiting for you Thursday, February 1, 7:00 p.m TO Humanitas bookstore from Cişmigiu (Bd. Regina Elisabeta No. 38) at the presentation of the novel Behind the barbed wire with James D. Shipmanrecently appeared in the collection Raftul Denisei, coordinated by Denisa Comanescu, in translation Emilia Ivanka.

In the fall of 1944, a group of Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners, with the help of some inmates from the women’s camp, plan to blow up the crematoria and gas chambers, signaling the beginning of an uprising aimed at liberating the camp. About two hundred and fifty prisoners were killed during the fighting, two hundred more will be shot after the defeat of the uprising. Based on real facts and extensive documentation, James D. Shipman manages to recreate this extraordinary episode of the Second World War through the means of fiction.

Participation: Dr. Felicia Waldmanlecturer at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Bucharest, coordinator of the Center for Jewish Studies, Marius Constantinescu and Christian Patresconiu, cultural journalists. The meeting will be moderated Denis Comanescudirector of the Humanitas Fiction publishing house.

There is access free, on the basis of booking by book of eventswithin the available seats.

Every morning, Anna walks several kilometers in the cold to the weapons factory, where she works together with other prisoners. Risking his life, he manages to extract small portions of gunpowder hidden in secret pockets of his clothes and bring them to the camp where Opor intended to blow up the gas chamber and crematorium IV. But danger awaits at every turn, and Anna is forced to endure the cruel games played by her SS guards and face the betrayal of the prisoner she trusted the most.

“There is a wealth of literature on the Holocaust, each novel revealing the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi death camps and the suffering of millions of people, Jews and others, whom the Nazis considered inferior. However, often forgotten are the stories of prisoners who rose up against the Nazis, knowing that there was no hope and that only death awaited them. James D. Shipman harmoniously weaves historical detail with fiction in this novel about the 1944 Auschwitz uprising.” – Review of historical novels

“The story of the Sonderkommando prisoners is undoubtedly one of the darkest episodes of the Auschwitz camp. The fact that they risked their lives to collect evidence of crimes so that new generations would know what happened behind the barbed wire of the gas chambers and crematoriums testifies to their foresight, to their good understanding of the situation in which they found themselves. .. and about their boundless courage.”

Piotr M.A. Tsyvinskyi

Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

Speech on the occasion of commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the uprising

The release will be trackable #live & #online on our page Facebook – Humanitas Fiction and so onYoutube – Humanitas.

James D. Shipman was born in the American West and began his writing career publishing short fiction and poetry while studying history at the University of Washington. In addition to his bachelor’s degree in history, he attended and graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in law. In 2004, he opened his own law firm. His first novel, Constantinopleappears in 2013 and later Home (2015), It’s good (2016), Bitter rain (2017), Task Force Baum (2019), Irena’s war (2020). He will publish a novel in 2022 Behind the barbed wire (Behind the wire; Humanitas Fiction, 2024). His latest novel, Before the stormwhich will be released in 2023. To date, James D. Shipman has published eight novels, many of which have become Amazon bestsellers.