This is a telling by a son of his father’s story. It is grim and moving of hope and despair – Strongly Recommended
NAME: Death March Escape, The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust FILE: R2755 AUTHOR: Jack J Hersch PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword, frontline BINDING: hard back PAGES: 283 PRICE: £25.00 GENRE: Non Fiction SUBJECT: WWII, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, prisoners, concentration camps, Hungary, Mauthausen
ISBN: 978-1-52674-022-2
IMAGE: B2755.jpg BUYNOW: http://tinyurl.com/y79u7vgn LINKS: DESCRIPTION: This is a telling by a son of his father's story. It is grim and moving of hope and despair - Strongly Recommended It is always rewarding to read a book which almost never happened. With survivors of WWII dying out, so much information is lost and this is a very welcome save. The author tells a story about a group of prisoners who have largely faded into history with little recognition. The father was Hungarian and taken into the slave labour system, being sent to the brutal Mauthausen Concentration camp. Once there he was assigned to the granite mines where life expectancy was very short. The author listened to his fathers stories and was motivated to learn more after seeing his photograph on the Mauthausen Memorial website. From there he began a careful research tracing his father's life to Mauthausen and then his part in the Death March when the Germans began a massive migration of slave workers and POWs as the Eastern Front collapsed. This is a quite unique story even though hundreds of thousands were caught up in the closing days of Hitler's Germany. It is warmly told and engages the reader. There is good illustration in a colour plate section