Scheisshaus luck
Subtitle: surviving the unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
By: Pierre Berg with Brian Brock.
Contributors: Brock, Brian.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: AMACOM, American Management Association
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780814412992
Subjects: Berg, Pierre; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Political prisoners -- France -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives, French.
Description: "From Pierre Berg's opening words, to his decidedly un-lucky detention by Gestapo officers, all the way through his internment in Drancy, Auschwitz, Dora, and Ravensbrueck, Scheisshaus Luck is a harrowing, clear-eyed testament of one young man's experience of the Holocaust. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, this autobiographical account of a Gentile French teenager's odyssey of horror and survival recounts Berg's day-to-day struggle for survival in the camps, escaping death countless times while enduring inhuman conditions, exhaustive slave labor, and near starvation." "Relentlessly unsentimental, yet tinged with a sense of brutal irony, Scheisshaus Luck provides a new perspective on some of the Nazis' most notorious concentration camps. As we quickly approach the day when there will be no living eyewitnesses to the Nazis' "Final Solution," Berg's memoir stands as a searing reminder of Nazi crimes. Scheisshaus Luck is a major addition to Holocaust literature, and a young man's haunting account of one of the darkest periods in history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Drancy; title: pt. 2. Auschwitz; title: pt. 3. The death march; title: pt. 4. Ravensbrueck; title: pt. 5. Wustrow.