By chance alone: a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz
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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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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[2016]
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| 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 |
| Physical Description: | xii, 276 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten Portäts |
| ISBN: | 9781443449281 9781443448536 |
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Contents
Author's Note.xi
Maps.xiii
Prologue.i
1. Childhood in Czechoslovakia.9
2. Summers on the Farm.27
3. Big Changes.31
4. Life under Hungarian Rule.37
5. A Year of Birth and Death.53
6. The Final Seder.55
7. The Train.65
8. Arrival in Auschwitz II—Birkenau.69
9. Arbeit Macht Frei.79
10. Draining Swamps. 93
11. Walking Ghosts.99
12. A Piece of Bacon.103
13. Selections, July 1944.107
14. Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz.111
15. The Operating Room.117
16. Surgeries in Barrack 21.125
17. A Pot of Stew.137
18. The Destruction of Crematorium 4.139
19. Death March.145
20. Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation.157
21. Ebensee, After Liberation.171
V
22. From Ceske Budejovice to Moldava.177
23. Emotional and Physical Healing.189
24. Marienbad.195
25. Prague.203
26. Return to Kosice.213
27. Ebelsberg DP Camp.221
28. Canada.227
Epilogue.235
Afterword.245
Acknowledgments.255
Appendix.261
Postscript.271
A Note on the Author.275 |
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