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02822aam a2200301 4500 001 2787D0BCA8B011EBA476F5FE4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210429010008 008 200115s2020 onc 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1335050140 020 $a 9781335050144 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Eisen, Max. $9 58615 245 10 $a By chance alone : $b a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz / $c Max Eisen. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a Toronto, Canada $b Hanover Square Press $c 2020 300 $a 280 p. $b illustrations, maps, portraits ; $c 23 cm 520 $a More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous "death march" in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing. Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of1944--five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family's yearly Passover Seder--gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer. One day, Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured, he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician, Tadeusz Orzeszko, operated on him. Despite his significant injury, Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last twenty-two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world. The author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding. 610 20 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) $9 11102 650 0 $a Jews, Czech $9 58616 650 0 $a Jews $9 41078 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors $9 21532 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $9 5412 650 0 $a Concentration camp inmates $z Poland $9 58617 655 $a Biographies $x Adult non fiction $9 27119 941 $a 1 952 $l CZPD706 $d 20210429010115.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2787D0BCA8B011EBA476F5FE4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search