| Description |
xii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Eisen, Max.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
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Jews, Czech -- Canada -- Biography.
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Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography.
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Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia.
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Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781335050144 (paper) |
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1335050140 (paper) |
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