In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivorFinalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor PrizeMore than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies; a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau; back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I; the infamous “death march†in January 1945; the painful aftermath of liberation; a journey of physical and psychological healing.Tibor “Max†Eisen was born in Moldava; Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members; and he lived in a family compound with his parents; his two younger brothers; his baby sister; his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of1944--five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family’s yearly Passover Seder--gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age; Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer.One day; Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured; he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician; Tadeusz Orzeszko; operated on him. Despite his significant injury; Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia; Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949; where he has dedicated the last twenty-two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world.The author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding.
#1145730 in Books McKenney Janice E 2014-09-03Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.97 x .74 x 6.07l; .0 #File Name: 1442244399254 pagesWomen of the Constitution Wives of the Signers
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Ladies FoundBy VA DuckIf you are an interested student of the people of the Constitution - this book is a must. I think that it is fair to say that it is also a FIRST; there is simply nothing like it. Be aware that it is an ENCYCLOPEDIC presentation: it will normally be accessed as a reference document; although it is readable cover-to-cover if you like; but there is no continuous story line. Each of the 43 ladies is treated as a separate biography (36 of 39 signers wives and seven more through re-marriage following a death: three signers never married.)It can be all to easy to "forget" the wives of the Signers; and except for a name and date of marriage - the women ARE often ignored! This book sets about fixing that oversight. The record in some cases; as the book's author Janice E. McKenney mentions; can be scant; but pulling together what there is in a single volume is large step forward. It is unfortunate that the book didn't include all of the 55 (participating) Delegates to the Constitutional Convention. There are some interesting characters of the 16 that are left out by focusing only on the 36 married (or to be married) signers.Portraits are by necessity uneven; but where they exist (31) they are included. A very nice bonus is the Appendix of Historic Houses associated with the wives of the signers; some houses private; but many public. If you live on the East Coast or travel there; the appendix offers a convenient means to see for yourself the architecture and sense the history of the 18th century. There are 201 pages devoted to the ladies and another 40 afterward for the already mentioned Appendix and a very well done index. This book nicely compliments Joseph Morton's Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary and it also augments John R. Vile's The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding (2 Volume Set).Five stars is high praise on the ; but this is a seminal work. If there is a complaint it is the price; but even so - worth it if this is your interest. Well done D.A.R.!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy CustomerThorough; informative; rather dry.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Holly RichardsGreat
