How Long to Read Black Swastika, Red Swastika

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Swastika, Red Swastika?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read Black Swastika, Red Swastika by Alexander Askanas

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a historical novel, a fi ctional story based on historical facts. The book begins in the summer of 1942, in the Warsaw ghetto at the start of the great Aktion of deporting the Warsaw Jews to the death camp Treblinka. A pair of young doctors, Leo and Rachel, with a 4 year old son Adam, tries desperately to escape the deportation and death. They are initially successful but eventually they are caught by the death machine and taken to the Umschlagplatz for the trip to Treblinka. They escape from the Umschlagplatz, and later from the ghetto , just before the ghetto uprising, to hide on the Aryan side .Adam is sent to a catholic family and Leo organizes the hospital at the edge of a huge forest near Warsaw, mostly for the partisans fi ghting against the Nazis. They all survive the WWII but Rachel succumbs later to the ovarian cancer . The second part of the book starts at the end of 1952, under a communist regime, when Leo is already a Professor of Cardiology and treats prominent Polish politicians. At that time in the Soviet Union 14 members of The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were executed and many prominent Jewish Doctors were arrested in the trumped up case of The Murderers in the White Coats, accused of trying to kill Soviet politicians, including Joseph Stalin. Leo is called to Moscow to treat visiting Polish Prime Minister, because all Russian doctors, terrifi ed by the arrest of their colleagues, are afraid to treat him. When in Moscow Leo is entrusted with the secret mission to notify the West that Stalin and the KGB are planning to deport all the Jews to Beribidzhan in the Eastern Siberia. He meets Tanya a young doctor, a daughter of the most prominent Russian lady scientist, who is now exiled to Kazakhstan for her membership in The Jewish Anti- Fascist Committee. Tanya looks like the younger sister of his late wife, Rachel and Leo and Tanya fall in love almost immediately. Leo is interrogated brutally in Moscow by the KGB but is released with the help of Polish Prime Minister. He returns to Warsaw and shortly later attends a Cardiology conference in Switzerland. There he is run over by a truck driven by the KGB agent but escapes with only broken arm. Afterwards he drives to Paris where he goes to the US Embassy to report the KGB plans. The Embassy offi cials dont believe fully his story but when the papers report the beginning of the court proceedings against the Jewish Doctors, his story fi nds a little more understanding. He is received with more appreciation in the Israeli Embassy and is fl own to Tel- Aviv to report to the Prime Minister Ben Gurion on the plight of the Russian Jews. As a result of his mission major US and Israeli newspapers report on the Stalins and the KGBs plans to deport Russian Jews. Later Leo goes to Moscow, together with his son Adam, to rescue Tanya from the serious threat of arrest and the deportation. They get married and using false papers and big bribes they manage to return to Poland in a nail biting escape. Stalin is seriously ill but he jailed his personal physician. He becomes more paranoid and threatening to one of his closest hangman, who decides to eliminate this danger. Stalins death ends all plans of Jewish deportation to Siberia.

How long is Black Swastika, Red Swastika?

Black Swastika, Red Swastika by Alexander Askanas is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Swastika, Red Swastika Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read Black Swastika, Red Swastika aloud.

What Reading Level is Black Swastika, Red Swastika?

Black Swastika, Red Swastika is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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