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Author:
Hersch, Jack J., author.
Title:
Death march escape : the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust / Jack J. Hersch.
Publisher:
Frontline Books,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xii, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Holocaust survivors--Hungary--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
Death marches--Upper Austria.--Upper Austria.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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{u2019}s nearby sub-camp, Gusen, he weighed less than 80lbs, nothing but skin and bones.
ISBN:
1526740222
9781526740229
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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