Title:
By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz / Max Eisen.
ISBN:
9781335050144
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Edition:
First Hanover Square Press trade paperback edition.
Publication Information:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2020.
©2016
Physical Description:
xii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Contents:
1. Childhood in Czechoslovakia -- 2. Summers on the Farm -- 3. Big Changes -- 4. Life under Hungarian Rule -- 5. Year of Birth and Death -- 6. Final Seder -- 7. Train -- 8. Arrival in Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- 9. Arbeit Macht Frei -- 10. Draining Swamps -- 11. Walking Ghosts -- 12. Piece of Bacon -- 13. Selections, July 1944 -- 14. Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz -- 15. Operating Room -- 16. Surgeries in Barrack 21 -- 17. Pot of Stew -- 18. Destruction of Crematorium 4 -- 19. Death March -- 20. Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation -- 21. Ebensee, After Liberation -- 22. From Ceske Budejovice to Moldava -- 23. Emotional and Physical Healing -- 24. Marienbad -- 25. Prague -- 26. Return to Kosice -- 27. Ebelsberg DP Camp -- 28. Canada.
Summary:
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
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OCLC Number:
on1127737390
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