The Survivor of the Holocaust

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Anniversary edition hardcover with a new foreword.From the brutality of the Warsaw ghetto to the terror of concentration camps, Jack Eisner’s searing, powerful story is one of stunning bravery and endurance, breathtaking escapes, and mind-numbing risk in the grim face of certain death.Jack Eisner was thirteen years old, about to enter the Warsaw Music Conservatory on a scholarship. Then Hitler’s Nazis m arched into Poland, transforming a comfortable Jewish community into a nightmarish world of savage and unspeakable death.As the Holocaust approached, Eisner was a music student barely into his teens. Soon he found himself organizing a gang of youths to smuggle food and other necessities into the Warsaw ghetto. He later smuggled arms for the ghetto revolt that began on April 19, 1943. He estimated that he threw 200 Molotov cocktails. Jack ended up in a series of concentration camps, including Majdanek, Budzyn and Flossenburg, and survived horrors that included torture. More than 100 of his family members died in the Holocaust, including all the other grandchildren of his two grandmothers, 30 in all. Searingly vivid, chillingly graphic, The Survivor of the Holocaust takes readers into the terror of the Warsaw ghetto, to the clandestine meetings with those beyond the ghetto walls–Christian friends who risk their lives to help the young teenager, onto the rooftops where brave young rebels raise the flag with the Star of David in the final, unforgettable moments of the daring but doomed Warsaw uprising. It is astonishing, achingly true account that races at breakneck speed from the rubble of the devastate ghetto to the brutality and horror of the concentration and slave labor camps. It tells a tale of stunning bravery and endurance, of breathtaking escapes, of mind-numbing risk in the grim face of certain death.

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