Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
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Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
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Overview
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526740229 |
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| Publisher: | Pen and Sword |
| Publication date: | 01/11/2019 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of Plates ix
Foreword xi
Part I Dej
Chapter 1 Lufthansa 3
Chapter 2 Cousin Vivi 5
Chapter 3 Dad 9
Chapter 4 Realization 11
Chapter 5 Mauthausen Memorial 13
Chapter 6 That Picture 17
Chapter 7 Me 25
Chapter 8 Pre-war Dej 29
Chapter 9 Passover 2001 33
Chapter 10 The Nazis Arrive 39
Chapter 11 The Ghetto 43
Chapter 12 The Friedmann Home 47
Chapter 13 65th Infantry Division: 5,217 Miles Away 51
Part II KZ Mauthausen
Chapter 14 Arrival 55
Chapter 15 Deportation 57
Chapter 16 Angelika 63
Chapter 17 Roadside 67
Chapter 18 The Mauthausen Camp System 69
Chapter 19 Not So Terrible 73
Chapter 20 Birkenau Selection 77
Chapter 21 Sanitary Camp 85
Chapter 22 Normandy, France: D-Day: 679 Miles Away 89
Chapter 23 Wall Plaques 91
Chapter 24 Parachutists 95
Chapter 25 Arrival in Mauthausen 99
Chapter 26 More than Luck 103
Chapter 27 Gusen II 107
Chapter 28 Gusen I 109
Chapter 29 A Day in the Camps 113
Chapter 30 Gusen Memorial 117
Chapter 31 Latrine Kommando 123
Chapter 32 Third Army Takes the Field, 658 Miles Away 127
Chapter 33 Closest Call 129
Chapter 34 Walking Gusen I 131
Chapter 35 Stone Crusher 135
Chapter 36 Out of Gas, 384 Miles Away 139
Chapter 37 Yom Kippur 1944 141
Chapter 38 Jourhaus 147
Chapter 39 Suicide 151
Chapter 40 Bahnhof Section 155
Chapter 41 Soup 161
Chapter 42 Westwall, 359 Miles Away 165
Chapter 43 Back in KZ Mauthausen 167
Chapter 44 The Bulge: 300 Miles Away 169
Chapter 45 Recharge 171
Part III Enns
Chapter 46 Inbound 'Transports' 179
Chapter 47 First Escape 183
Chapter 48 Eggs and Butter 189
Chapter 49 Intersection 193
Chapter 50 Gendarmerie 199
Chapter 51 The 261st Regiment of the 65th Infantry Division; 241 Miles Away 205
Chapter 52 The Great Escape 207
Chapter 53 57 Kristein 217
Chapter 54 The Sugar Factory 219
Chapter 55 261st Regiment of the 65th Infantry Division: 156 Miles Away 223
Chapter 56 The Little Path 225
Chapter 57 Excuse 229
Chapter 58 The House 233
Chapter 59 Lost 237
Chapter 60 The Fields 241
Chapter 61 The Stream 247
Chapter 62 261st Infantry Regiment. 121 Miles Away 249
Chapter 63 Miracle 251
Chapter 64 261st Infantry Regiment. 11 Miles Away 257
Chapter 65 How 259
Chapter 66 Why 263
Chapter 67 Found 267
Epilogue 273
Author's Note 275
Index 277