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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Max Eisen; Max Eisen |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Max Eisen |
ISBN: | 9781443449281 1443449288 9781443448536 1443448532 |
OCLC Number: | 947930804 |
Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Childhood in Czechoslovakia -- 2. Summers on the Farm -- 3. Big Changes -- 4. Life under Hungarian Rule -- 5. Year of Birth and Death -- 6. Final Seder -- 7. Train -- 8. Arrival in Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- 9. Arbeit Macht Frei -- 10. Draining Swamps -- 11. Walking Ghosts -- 12. Piece of Bacon -- 13. Selections, July 1944 -- 14. Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz -- 15. Operating Room -- 16. Surgeries in Barrack 21 -- 17. Pot of Stew -- 18. Destruction of Crematorium 4 -- 19. Death March -- 20. Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation -- 21. Ebensee, After Liberation -- 22. From Ceske Budejovice to Moldava -- 23. Emotional and Physical Healing -- 24. Marienbad -- 25. Prague -- 26. Return to Kosice -- 27. Ebelsberg DP Camp -- 28. Canada. |
Responsibility: | Max Eisen. |
Abstract:
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.
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