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Starving Review: I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust by Mathias B. Freese I Truly Lament: Walking Through the Holocaust by Mathias B. Freese (Amazon, Goodreads) Not all literary meals are laid out on the table purely for the stuffing of the reader’s face with new entertainment.  Some have a purpose behind their creation and other recipes are crafted to bring the reader an important message or a deep feeling as he sits chewing the fat.  I’ve reviewed at least one book like this before so it’s not a stranger to this Starving Reviewer and I have another such literary meal…

Working Through The Holocaust Literature/Fiction Collection of Short Stories A guard, a young boy, a Nazi doctor, a Canonist and even a golem; are but a few of the diverse characters portrayed in I truly Lament: Working Through The holocaust, a collection of short stories by Mathias B. Freese. The Author brings to life a myriad of gripping stories about those affected by the Holocaust. These are not the common accounts of survival or even human perseverance, but the damage that humanity can bring upon its own kind. Each story delves deep into the human psyche and exposes the real…

I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust By Mathias Freese Wheatmark, $12.95, 230 pages, Format: Trade Star Rating: 5 out of 5 I Truly Lament is a collection of twenty-seven stories – nine of which were previous published and “significantly revised for this book” – that are meditations on the Holocaust. Award winning author Mathias B. Freese covers a multitude of Holocaust themes taken from different perspectives in this poignant anthology. Freese offers readers a window into a world that may resemble something like Twilight Zone episodes. And though the bulk of his collection are works of fiction, the type…

I Truly Lament: Working through the Holocaust, Mathias B. Freese (Wheatmark, Arizona USA 2015) 2015 sees the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War (for the countries of Eastern Europe that ending only came in 1989). Many archives are still to be opened. Millions of voices remain unheard, yet of all the events of those war years, those of the Holocaust challenge the bent heart of our humanity. The Holocaust still requires work, as award winning writer and psychotherapist, Mathias Freese stresses in this gritty collage of twenty-seven hard-hitting stories. Using black humour, language that is spare…