Survivor
Subtitle: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom
By: Sam Pivnik
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; Hodder
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781444758375
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Polish Personal narratives; Jews; Biography
Other titles: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom
Description: Sam Pivnik is a survivor of a world that no longer exists - on 14 occasions, he should have been killed. On his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived two ghettoes and 6 months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either sent to camp or gassed. After this, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp. As the Third Reich collapsed, he was only one of a handful of people who swam to safety after the RAF sank his prison ship. Settling in London, he found people too preoccupied with their own experiences on the Home Front to be interested in what had happened to him. Now in his eighties, he tells his story for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index.