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"[A] deeply intimate accountĀ .Ā .Ā . Masterfully conveys the grim absurdity of the Nazi mentality and the utter dejection of the concentration-camp prisoner." ā
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Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength, and his determination not to die all played a part in Sam Pivnik living to tell his extraordinary story.
In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampe Kommando where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing. After this harrowing experience he was sent to work at the brutal FĆ¼rstengrube mining camp. He could have died on the 'Death March' that took him west as the Third Reich collapsed and he was one of only a handful of people who swam to safety when the Royal Air Force sank the prison ship Cap Arcona in 1945, mistakenly believing it to be carrying fleeing members of the SS.
He eventually made his way to London where he found people too preoccupied with their own wartime experiences on the Home Front to be interested in what had happened to him.
Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.
"Absorbing and often rivetingĀ .Ā .Ā . another worthy addition to the books on the horrors of Nazi occupation." ā Booklist
Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength, and his determination not to die all played a part in Sam Pivnik living to tell his extraordinary story.
In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampe Kommando where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing. After this harrowing experience he was sent to work at the brutal FĆ¼rstengrube mining camp. He could have died on the 'Death March' that took him west as the Third Reich collapsed and he was one of only a handful of people who swam to safety when the Royal Air Force sank the prison ship Cap Arcona in 1945, mistakenly believing it to be carrying fleeing members of the SS.
He eventually made his way to London where he found people too preoccupied with their own wartime experiences on the Home Front to be interested in what had happened to him.
Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.
"Absorbing and often rivetingĀ .Ā .Ā . another worthy addition to the books on the horrors of Nazi occupation." ā Booklist
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Terms
- Prologue: Facing the Angel
- 1. The Garden of Eden
- 2. The World Turned Upside Down
- 3. Occupation
- 4. Day Turned to Night
- 5. Descent into Hell
- 6. The Razorās Edge
- 7. The Rampe
- 8. The Princeās Mine
- 9. Death March
- 10. Cold Comfort Farm
- 11. The Cap Arcona
- 12. Liberation
- 13. The Land of Milk and Honey
- 14. A Kind of Justice? A Kind of Peace?
- 15. Return to Eden
- Photographs
- Notes on Sources
- Further Reading
- Appendix
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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