Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora - Hardcover

Berg, Pierre; Brock, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814412998 ISBN 13: 9780814412992

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

In 1943, eighteen year old Pierre Berg picked the wrong time to visit a friend s house at the same time as the Gestapo. He was thrown into the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. But through a mixture of savvy and chance, he managed to survive ... and ultimately got out alive. "As far as I'm concerned", says Berg, "it was all shithouse luck, which is to say inelegantly that I kept landing on the right side of the randomness of life". Such begins the first memoir of a French gentile Holocaust survivor published in the U.S. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, "Scheisshaus Luck" recounts Berg's constant struggle in the camps, escaping death countless times while enduring inhumane conditions, exhaustive labor, and near starvation. The book takes readers through Berg's time in Auschwitz, his hair s breadth avoidance of Allied bombing raids, his harrowing death march out of Auschwitz to Dora, a slave labor camp (only to be placed in another forced labor camp manufacturing the Nazis V1 & V2 rockets), and his eventual daring escape in the middle of a pitched battle between Nazi and Red Army forces. Utterly frank and tinged with irony, irreverence, and gallows humor, "Scheisshaus Luck" ranks in importance among the work of fellow survivors Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi. As we quickly approach the day when there will be no living eyewitnesses to the Nazi's Final Solution, Berg's memoir stands as a searing reminder of how the Holocaust affected us all.

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Pierre Berg (Beverly Hills, CA) was held prisoner in four different concentration camps, from January 1944 until May 1945. He emigrated to the U.S. following World War II. Now retired after forty years as a machinist in the movie industry, he keeps himself busy ushering at L.A. playhouses. Brian Brock (Los Angeles, CA) is a freelance writer.

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• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814412998
• ISBN 13: 9780814412992
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Amacom; https://www.harpercollins.co.jp/; ; Via Energy Park, 20; Vimercate; MI; 20871; Italien