num_pages: 346
description: #1 Amazon Best-Seller 2015 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist in Biography A riveting well-documented account of survival that's harrowing inspiring and unforgettable. --Kirkus Reviews In sharing his story - with Nancy Sprowell Geise's help - Rubinstein has made an invaluable contribution to the literature of the Holocaust. --BlueInk Review (Starred Review) Author Geise has done an important job in presenting Joe's story to the world and does justice to a generation whose voices deserve to be heard. A great read... --Myles Friedman Finelines Pubslush Review Blog Auschwitz #34207 will join work by Primo Levi on a shelf of classic Holocaust narratives.--Foreword Reviews Seventy years ago Joe Rubinstein walked out of a Nazi concentration camp. Until now his story has been hidden from the world. Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom Poland German soldiers forced twenty-one year-old Icek Joe Rubinsztejn onto a crowded open-air truck. The next day several around him were dead. From there things got worse for young Joemuch worse. Joe arrived at Auschwitz on April 30 1942. Only now in his 90s has he revealed how he survived when so many others perished. His is a remarkable narrativea unique story of endurance and courage. Barefooted when he was seized by the Nazis he became one of New Yorks leading shoe designers. Joes story bears witness to the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. While the Nazis took everything else they were unable to take his unassailable joy. His is a story of discovering light in the darkest of places.
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title: Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story
publisher: Merry Dissonance Press