03147cam a2200337 4500 526732994 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781526740236 1526740230 B07GCH7F5Z Amazon 79e844fe-7161-4904-9ef1-edd3b9060753 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4241927 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hersch, Jack J. Death March Escape [Libby eBook] : The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust. Pen & Sword Books, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6561kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>"Blending elements of memoir, history, and biography," the son of a Holocaust survivor "portrays the horrifying reality of the . . . concentration camps" (<i>Midwest Book Review</i>).</b><br /> In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruelest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen's nearby sub-camp, Gusen, he weighed less than 80lbs, nothing but skin and bones.<br /> <br /> Somehow surviving the relentless horrors of these two brutal camps, as Allied forces drew near Dave was forced to join a death march to Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, over thirty miles away. Soon after the start of the march, and more dead than alive, Dave summoned a burst of energy he did not know he had and escaped. Quickly recaptured, he managed to avoid being killed by the guards. Put on another death march a few days later, he achieved the impossible: he escaped again.<br /> <br /> Using only his father's words for guidance, Jack Hersch takes us along as he flies to Europe to learn the secrets his father never told of his time in the camps. Beginning in the verdant hills of his father's Hungarian hometown, we accompany Jack's every step as he describes the unimaginable: what his father must have seen and felt while struggling to survive in the most abominable places on earth.<br /> <br /> "This deeply personal and extremely informative portrait of a man of indomitable will to live, as Hersch emphasizes, reminds us of why we must never forget nor trivialize the full, shocking truth about the Holocaust."—<i>Booklist</i></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Judaica. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=79e844fe-7161-4904-9ef1-edd3b9060753&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=79e844fe-7161-4904-9ef1-edd3b9060753&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=79e844fe-7161-4904-9ef1-edd3b9060753&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)