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Death march escape, the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust, Jack J. Hersch

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Death march escape, the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust, Jack J. Hersch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Death march escape

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1041499292

Responsibility statement

Jack J. Hersch

Sub title

the remarkable story of a man who twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust

Summary

In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen's nearby sub-camp, Gusen, he weighed less than 80 lbs. Somehow surviving the relentless horrors of these two brutal camps, as Allied forces drew near Dave was forced to join a death march to Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, over thirty miles away. Soon after the start of the march, and more dead than alive, Dave summoned a burst of energy he did not know he had and escaped. Quickly recaptured, he managed to avoid being killed by the guards. Put on another death march a few days later, he achieved the impossible: he escaped again

Target audience

adult

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