I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds
by Henry Orenstein
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I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command.Orenstein's lucid prose recreates this horrific time in history and his constant struggle for survival show more as the Nazis move him and his brothers through five concentration camps. His description of their roles in the fake Chemical Commando sheds new light on an incredible and generally unknown event in the history of the Holocaust. This edition of I Shall Live contains new evidence about this false Commando, including letters signed to and from Himmler himself. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Orenstein, Henry; Amon Goth; Fehringer, Toni; Blanke, Max; Muller, Franz-Josef
- Important places
- Hrubieszów, Lublin, Poland; Budzyń concentration camp, Kraśnik, Lublin, Poland; Majdanek concentration camp, Lublin, Lublin, Poland; Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Płaszów, Kraków, Poland; Ravensbrück concentration camp, Ravensbrück, Brandenburg, Germany; Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
- Important events
- Holocaust
- Epigraph
- I shall not die
I shall live
I shall tell the story... - Dedication
- To the memories of my family murdered by the Nazis and to my beloved wife, Susie, without whose urging and inspiration this book would not have been written
Special thanks to Dr. Lucjan Dobroszycki, Professor of Histor... (show all)y at YIVO and Yeshiva University, and editor of The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, for his invaluable help in the search for documents and verification - First words
- When they met for the first time, my father, Lejb, took one look at my mother, Golda, and promptly fell in love.
- Blurbers
- Lanzmann, Claude; Dawidowicz, Lucy; Begin, Menachem; Perlmutter, Nathan
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.53 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- World War II, 1939-1945
- LCC
- DS135 .P63 .O74 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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- 204
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- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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- 13
- UPCs
- 1
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- 3
