By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
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In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor "Max" Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer.
More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen's story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen's journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.
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Max Eisen. (2020). By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz. Hanover Square Press.
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In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor "Max" Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer.
More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen's story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen's journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life. - reviews
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A horrifying yet inspiring story of a young man's life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Eisen was living in Czechoslovakia when the Nazis began their sweep across Europe. He points out that many did not believe that the roundup would include them, but, of course, it eventually did. He spends some 50 pages discussing his pre-Holocaust life--school, summers working on a farm--and then tells about his family's arrest, the train to Auschwitz, and the "cruelty of the SS guards." Those familiar with the vile history of the camp will recognize the routines and indignities (and worse) that the author and his family experienced. Eventually, all of his family members were "selected" for murder, and he records his sad farewell with his father, who implored him to tell the story. As the war wound down, the prisoners were moved, occasioning yet more unspeakable horrors, including some starving, desperate prisoners' resorting to cannibalism. Eisen had just turned 16 when the Americans liberated the camp. In the final third of the book, the author deals with the immediate post-Holocaust years: his struggles to get back to his town and decision to leave, the kindness (and unkindness) of strangers, his re-arrest by the communists, his fortunate release from prison, and the complicated and highly risky decision to leave Europe for Canada. Eisen subsequently married, had a family, found a career in bookbinding, and, in 1988, began speaking frequently about the Holocaust to a wide variety of groups. His research has taken him back to Auschwitz numerous times. He acknowledges at the outset that he cannot, of course, remember everything that happened in 1944, but, as readers will quickly discover, so much of what happened to him resides firmly in the category of unforgettable. More gruesome evidence of what we will do to one another; more sanguine evidence of the determination to remain human.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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In the spring of 1944, 15-year-old Tibor "Max" Eisen and his family gathered for Passover Seder, when there came a knock at the door and a neighbor's warning of a roundup of Hungarian Jews. The following morning, police forced open the gates and gave the family five minutes to pack all of their belongings. A transit camp followed, then the train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eisen managed to survive the death camp after a Polish political prisoner and doctor took him in, providing security, clothes, and food. Following the war and a three-year-long journey, Eisen immigrated to Canada, where, at last, in 1949, he started rebuilding what was left of his life. This affecting account sheds fresh insight into the horrors of the Holocaust; Eisen's descriptions of the prison hospital will provide new information to many readers, even those already well familiar with the World War II literature. VERDICT In the vein of Holocaust memoirs such as Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, this significant new entry offers further documentation of a dark period in history. It will be a solid addition to all World War II collections.--David Keymer, Cleveland
Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen's story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen's journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life. - sortTitle
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