An Unbroken Chain
Subtitle: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780822529521
Subjects: Children's and Educational; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Oertelt, Henry A; Biography & Autobiography; Children's Books/Young Adult Biography; History - Holocaust; Germany; Children's 12-Up - Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Berlin (Germany); Jews; Personal narratives; Religious; Berlin
First sentence: I am a survivor of the Holocaust, one who has been destined to bear witness for its millions of murdered victims.
Description: In this true-life account of the Holocaust, author and lecturer Henry Oertelt retraces the harrowing sequence of events that forever changed his destiny. Henry links eighteen heart stopping incidents into the chain of his life. Had there been just one weak link, he would have been destroyed. Beginning as a youth in Hitler's Germany, the author relates his amazing existence in wartime Berlin, then his experiences in the concentration camps, eventually culminating in his liberation.--[book cover]