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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- “Former Library Copy with Stamped Markings; Clean Inside Pages; Readable Copy; Solid Binding”
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Book Series
- N/A
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Holocaust/Memoir Hardcover Book
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Literary Movement
- Post-Modernism
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Ex-Library, Illustrated
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- ISBN
- 9781526740229
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1526740222
ISBN-13
9781526740229
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038655674
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death March Escape : the Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Holocaust, Military, Jewish
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
As we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day later this month, Death March Escape is a story of one man's remarkable plight, offering a unique inside, outside and historic look at the Nazi Holocaust., This story was an amazing read from start to finish , it was also an emotional read as well but then again when it comes to nonfiction and especially the ones that are about WWI or WW2 then you know your going to feel the emotions, there was times i had to stop read it not because I wasn't enjoying it or liking it but because of how I felt., Dave Hersch was a Hungarian Jew who was shipped to Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944. He later escaped two death marches to another camp and managed to survive war., 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., What makes the reading particularly compelling is the psychological impact that his father's story had on Jack Hersch. At times he blamed himself for not asking more while his father still was alive - a poignant reminder to all of us, regardless of where we are on the age spectrum, to share our stories and to listen carefully to those of our family members. At other times, he engaged in a form of auto psychoanalysis; perhaps, he hadn't asked his father about all the details because he didn't want to know. Perhaps he had feared that as a son, it would be even harder to measure up to his father's bravery., This book was haunting. Excellent but haunting. The author did a fantastic job of telling the story of his father's escapes from 2 different points of views. The first being his father's point of view. The second being his. Jack's story was intertwined with his father., Written by the son of the titular Holocaust survivor, Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust tells the true story of Dave Hersch, who twice escaped the lethal death marches that the Nazis forced on concentration camp prisoners at the end of World War II. Blending elements of memoir, history, and biography, Death March Escape portrays the horrifying reality of the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps, and describe incredible bids for freedom against all odds. Forty black-and-white photographs and four maps round out this welcome contribution to public library Holocaust Studies collections, Forty black-and-white photographs and four maps round out this welcome contribution to public library Holocaust Studies collections.
Synopsis
'Dragging himself weakly, he made it to the side of the road. To go to the side of the road meant death. It was a firm rule of the transports. He sat down on a boulder, took off his wooden shoes, and waited to die. An SS trooper guarding the march spotted him sitting, and walked towards him, his pistol ready. The Nazi seemed to study my father as he approached. "We looked right at each other. I looked right at his eyes. Then he looked at my shoes on the ground, then back to me, and I don't know what happened. He kept walking! He walked right past me!"... The shock of not being dead gave him a jolt that sprang him back onto his feet.' The two other SS men were only few yards away, but walking backwards, monitoring their slower charges. In a flash, my father realized no one was watching him. He looked to his right, to the copse of trees, and, incredibly, spotted a narrow dirt path starting right at his feet and leading into the trees. The path led who-knows-where. But the path was possible freedom. The road was certain death. Without another thought, my father took off, bolting down the path like a scared rabbit, legs churning, eight, nine, ten steps, then he threw himself into bushes lining the path.' Book jacket., 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, cruellest 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. 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. Dave often told his story of survival and escape, and his son, Jack, thought he knew it well. But years after his father's death, he came across a photograph of his father on, of all places, the Mauthausen Memorial's website. It was an image he had never seen before - and it propelled him on an intensely personal journey of discovery. Using only his father's words for guidance, Jack takes us along as he flies to Europe to learn the secrets behind the photograph, secrets his father never told of his time in the camps. Beginning in the verdant hills of his father's Hungarian hometown, we travel with Jack to the foreboding rock mines of Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps, to the dust-choked roads and intersections of the death marches, and, finally, to the makeshift hiding places of his father's rescuers. 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. In a warm and emotionally engaging story, Jack digs deeply into both his father's life and his own, revisiting - and reflecting on - his father's time at the hands of the Nazis during the last year of the Second World War, when more than mere survival was at stake - the fate of humanity itself hung in the balance., 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, cruellest 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.
LC Classification Number
D804.196
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- i***3 (1)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book came so quick, and packaged with the most care! Exactly as described and in perfect condition! Definitely would buy from this seller again, very nice interaction!U.S. Naval Aviation by Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, Large 2001, Hardcover. (#235902148528)
- 1***8 (502)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat communication, fast shipping, item as described. Thanks!
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