The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

Release on 2019-01-24 | by Jeremy Dronfield

My family's story of survival, loss of life and rescue encompasses all those
connected to that period who experienced ... The Boy Who Followed His Father
into Auschwitz is a sensitive, vivid yet moving and well-researched story of my
family.

Author: Jeremy Dronfield
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780241359181
Category: History
Page: 432
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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated by The Cut Out Girl, The Choice and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. ___________ 'Everyone thinks, tomorrow it will be my turn. Daily, hourly, death is before our eyes . . .' Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann are father and son in an ordinary Austrian Jewish family when the Nazis come for them. Sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939 they survive three years of murderous brutality. Then Gustav is ordered to Auschwitz. Fritz, desperate not to lose his beloved father, insists he must go too. And though he is told it means certain death, he won't back down. So it is that father and son together board a train bound for the most hellish place on Earth . . . This is the astonishing true story of horror, love and impossible survival. ___________ 'An extraordinary tale' The Times, Best Books of 2019 'The story is both immersive and extraordinary. Deeply moving and brimming with humanity' Guardian 'An emotionally devastating story of courage - and survival' i Paper 'We should all read this shattering book about the Holocaust. An astonishing story of the unbreakable bond between a father and a son' Daily Mail 'A deeply humane account and a visceral depiction of everyday life in the camps. Could not be more timely and deserves the widest possible readership' Daily Express

Language: en
Pages: 432

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

Authors: Jeremy Dronfield

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-24 - Publisher: Penguin UK

Language: en
Pages: 383

The Roots of Nationalism in European History

Authors: Andrew Sangster

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-16 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book challenges the commonly held belief that Nationalism is a recent phenomenon. It surveys European history from the tribal stage to 1989-90, and concludes with a commentary on events between 1990 and the European Elections of May 2019. During this review, it comments on the growth of nations across

Language: en
Pages: 304

The Auschwitz Photographer

Authors: Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-11 - Publisher: Random House

Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust. 'Brasse has left us with a powerful legacy in images. Because of them we can see the victims of the Holocaust as human and not statistics.' Fergal Keane _______________

Language: en
Pages: 352

Hitler's Last Plot

Authors: Ian Sayer, Jeremy Dronfield

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-13 - Publisher:

Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send

Language: en
Pages: 400

The Lives Before Us

Authors: Juliet Conlin

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-28 - Publisher: Black & White Publishing Ltd

"I wasn't sure I liked the sound of it. Even my vivid imagination could hardly fathom a place as tight, or dense, or narrow as Shanghai." It's April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, Esther and Kitty – two very different women – are forced