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The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival Book
by Dronfield, Jeremy.
Book | Harper, New York : [2020]
  • 10 of 10 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Port Colborne Library
  • 1 current hold with 10 total copies.
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Port Colborne 940.5318092243613 DRO Adult Non-fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholster from Vienna, and his sixteen-year-old son Fritz are arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Germany. Imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, they miraculously survive the Nazis? murderous brutality. Then Gustav learns he is being sent to Auschwitz?and certain death. For Fritz, letting his father go is unthinkable. Desperate to remain together, Fritz makes an incredible choice: he insists he must go too. To the Nazis, one death camp is the same as another, and so the boy is allowed to follow. Throughout the six years of horror they witness and immeasurable suffering they endure as victims of the camps, one constant keeps them alive: their love and hope for the future. Based on the secret diary that Gustav kept as well as meticulous archival research and interviews with members of the Kleinmann family, including Fritz?s younger brother Kurt, sent to the United States at age eleven to escape the war, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is Gustav and Fritz?s story?an extraordinary account of courage, loyalty, survival, and love that is unforgettable.
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  • ISBN: 9780063019294
  • ISBN: 9780063019317
  • ISBN: 0063019310
  • Physical Description: xvi, 423, 16 pages : illustrationsprint
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, [2020]
  • Copyright: ©2020
  • General Note: LSC 33.50"Originally published, in slightly different form, as The stone crusher in 2018 by Chicago Review Press"--Title page verso.Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more section containing a message from Kurt Kleinmann, family photographs, and afterword.
  • Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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