The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz: a true story of family and survival

In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gu...

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1. Verfasser: Dronfield, Jeremy 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Harper [2020]
Ausgabe:First Harper paperbacks edition
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Zusammenfassung:In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son
Beschreibung:First published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Penguin Random House UK ; previously published as The stone crusher
Beschreibung:xvi, 423, 16 Seiten Portraits
ISBN:9780063019294
9780063019317