The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival /
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gus...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
[2020]
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| Summary: | In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz, a certain death sentence, Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive, the love between father and son. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published, in slightly different form, as The Stone Crusher in 2018 by Chicago Review Press"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 423, 16 pages ; illustrations : 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780063019317 0063019310 |