The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz

The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz

The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz

The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz

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Overview

In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his 16-year old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a five-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build Buchenwald, young Fritz learning construction skills which would help preserve him from extermination in the coming years. But it was his bond with his father that would ultimately keep them both alive. When the 50-year old Gustav was transferred to Auschwitz—a certain death sentence—Fritz was determined to go with him. His wiser friends tried to dissuade him—“If you want to keep living, you have to forget your father,” they said. But that was impossible, and Fritz pleaded for a place on the Auschwitz transport. “He is a true comrade,” Gustav wrote in his secret diary, “always at my side. The boy is my greatest joy. We are inseparable.” Gustav kept his diary hidden throughout his six years in the death camps—even Fritz knew nothing of it. In it he recorded his story, a tale of survival and a father-son bond which proved stronger than the machine that sought to break them both.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781543677836
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication date: 07/01/2018
Edition description: Unabridged
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Dronfield is a biographer, historian, novelist, and ghostwriter. Following a career in archaeology, he began writing fiction. His titles include the bestselling thriller The Locust Farm and The Alchemist’s Apprentice. His recent nonfiction includes the bestselling Beyond the Call and Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time. His website is jeremydronfield.com.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Prologue 1

Part I Vienna

1 "When Jewish Blood Drips from the Knife…" 5

2 Traitors to the People 25

Part II Buchenwald

3 Blood and Stone: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald 43

4 The Stone Crusher 59

5 The Road to Life 70

6 A Favorable Decision 84

7 The New World 101

8 Unworthy of Life 115

9 A Thousand Kisses 133

10 A Trip to Death 152

Part III Auschwitz

11 A Town Called Oswiecim 161

12 Auschwitz-Monowitz 178

13 The End of Gustav Kleinmann, Jew 186

14 Resistance and Collaboration: The Death of Fritz Kleinmann 198

15 The Kindness of Strangers 217

16 Far from Home 231

17 Resistance and Betrayal 246

Part IV Survival

18 Death Train 267

19 Mauthausen 280

20 The End of Days 294

21 The Long Way Home 309

Epilogue: Jewish Blood 317

Bibliography and Sources 325

Acknowledgments 333

Notes 335

Index 375

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