A uniquely personal polish account of the holocaust. The Final Station records Jaroslaw Rymkiewics"s obsession, as a Christian Pole, with the extermination of the jews during World War II before the eyes of the Poles and, often, with their collaboration. Rymkiewicz places the Umschlagplatz-the area of the Warsaw ghetto where Jews were gathered for deportation as part of the final solution-at the center of his narrative, because "it happened right here, in the midst of our lives.

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