Press Coverage
-
Spain Publishes Werner's "Survivor"
Spain publishes Werner Barasch's story of surviving the Holocaust. This story casts new insight on Franco's WWII tacit complicity with Nazi Germany. Barasch who is 88 years old is flying from California to Barcelona May 2008 to deliver a talk to commemorate the occasion of this important book publishing event.
Source: Provincial Library of Barcelona, Spain -
Los Gatos Weekly News
Werner Barasch wrote his book 'Survivor' at the urging of friends. The book has been published in Germany, but Barasch is having difficulty finding a publisher in the U.S.
Source: Untold Tales by Sandy Sims, March 13, 2002Los Gatan Werner Barasch has a unique perspective on the Holocaust. He experienced the way different countries treated Jews and refugees during the war.
-
JewishSF.com
Source: Shoah memoirists describe penning of the unspeakable - by Michelle Gabriel, March 8, 2002Speaking to an audience of more than 60 people, Werner Barasch of Los Gatos described how it took him nearly half a century and the insistence of good friends to persuade him to write his story, "Survivor, Autobiographical Fragments 1938-1946," because "I did not realize that there was a strong and useful message.
-
San Jose Mercury News
Source: Age, time can't erase her past as a Nazi guard - by Linda Goldston, September 21, 2006Barasch, who was born in Germany, eventually lived in five European countries, dodging Hitler's encroaching regime. He was eventually sent to camps in France and Spain, he said, but often escaped.