Review: An Escapee from the Holocaust
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
This is one of many amazingly brave and fascinating stories to emerge over the last 50 years. A story of a Jewish man who managed to survive.  At times it is frightening, at others tenuously fragile as he seems to stagger from one problem to another.  He is very fortunate in having a non Jewish  girl friend who risks her own life constantly but also has several other friends, one of whom gives him his identity to escape into hiding.  The risks taken by these people are enormous and yet the book concentrates very much on the autobiography of the author with intricate details.  It does need more about his helpers - not that they are disregarded, but their support is so necessary and yet so little is given of them. Perhaps they do not want their role to be well known. In that case, the author is excused.  The author works as a young doctor and is accepted by many because of his obvious medical knowledge and application, even the Gestapo, despite the fact that many people seem to doubt his story.  He is totally upfront in so many frightening situations that it is quite shocking how he manages to survive.  Well written but disturbing in the risks accepted, with some gratitude,  from others.