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