This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Childhood in Czechoslovakia -- Summers on the Farm -- Big Changes -- Life under Hungarian Rule -- A Year of Birth and Death -- The Final Seder -- The Train -- Arrival in Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- Arebeit Macht Frei -- Draining Swamps -- Walking Ghosts -- A Piece of Bacon -- Selections, July 1944 -- Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz -- The Operating Room -- Surgeries in Barrack 21 -- A Pot of Stew -- The Destruction of Crematorium 4 -- Death March -- Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation -- Ebensee, After Liberation -- From Ceske Budejovice to Moldava -- Emotional and Physical Healing -- Marienbad -- Prague -- Return to Kosice -- Ebelsberg DP Camp -- Canada.