Chance AloneA Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

✍ Scribed by Eisen, Max

• Book ID: 108984822
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781443449281

✦ Synopsis

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor

More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous "death march" in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing.

Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of1944—five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family's yearly Passover Seder—gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They...