A young Jewish man from a small town in Poland bears witness to prewar Jewish life and to the destruction wrought by the Holocaust. He survives massacres, a ghetto and concentration camps. As the only remainder of his family, he is determined to commemorate their lives through his own children and his work in Holocaust education.
Key Selling Points
- A detailed eyewitness account of life in German-occupied Eastern Europe, and of daily life in a ghetto and in the Nazi concentration camps.
- Detailed descriptions of prewar Jewish life in an Eastern European town; the hunger, violence and abuse in Auschwitz and Nazi concentration camps; the ways that inmates were used for economic gain by Nazi Germany; and living with grief and trauma in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
- Published to coincide with the North American tour of the award-winning traveling exhibit Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
- This memoirs release will mark eighty years since the liberation of Auschwitz, and of Europe from Nazi tyranny.
- Authors detailed memories provide a unique window into historical details of Auschwitz and other aspects of the Holocaust.
As the German army invades his hometown in Poland, young Moishe Kantorowitz decides to mentally record everything he sees. In this movingly descriptive and devastating portrayal of prewar Jewish life and its destruction during the Holocaust, Moishe bears witness to incomprehensible cruelties and to the lives and communities that are rapidly wiped out by the Nazis. Moishes entire family is murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Moishe, selected to live, endures brutal treatment and constant hunger, his survival now dependent on the whims of his overseers and small acts of generosity that bring him back from the brink of death.
