What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or thought you knew?
Growing up, author Mel Laytner saw his father as a quintessential Type B: passive and conventional. As he uncovered documents the Nazis didn’t burn, however, another man emerged—a black market ringleader and wily camp survivor who made his own luck. The tattered papers also shed light on painful secrets his father took to his grave.
Melding the intimacy of personal memoir with the rigors of investigative journalism, What They Didn’t Burn is a heartwarming, inspiring story of resilience and redemption. A story of how desperate survivors turned hopeful refugees rebuilt their shattered lives in America, all the while struggling with the lingering trauma that has impacted their children to this day.
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Religious BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: West 83rd Street
- Chapter 2: Finding Bill Ball
- Chapter 3: Of Diamonds and Documents
- Chapter 4: Paris, Auschwitz, and Mom
- Chapter 5: Finding Pilsudskiego 3
- Chapter 6: Rooting Through the Roots
- Chapter 7: The 800-Pound Gorilla
- Chapter 8: Ethnic Cleansing to Mass Murder
- Chapter 9: Liquidation of a Small Ghetto
- Chapter 10: Tin Hammer
- Chapter 11: Auschwitz IV
- Chapter 12: Profile of a Kapo
- Chapter 13: Bread and Other Survival Stories
- Chapter 14: Diversion by Document
- Chapter 15: Of Air Raids and Executions
- Chapter 16: Death March to Big Roses
- Chapter 17: Big Roses
- Chapter 18: From a Number to a Name
- Chapter 19: Beech Forest
- Chapter 20: Escape and Freedom
- Chapter 21: Afterlife
- Chapter 22: Poland Redux
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Partial Bibliography
- Notes and Thoughts
- Endnotes by Chapter
- Photo and Document Credits
- About the Author
- About Sparkpress
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