Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary
edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan
Salzman), gives readers a personal and powerful account of his
survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With
heartbreaking and honest reflection, the author shares a gripping
first-person narrative of his transformation from a Jewish
eleven-year-old boy living happily in Tyczyn, Poland with his
brother and parents, to his experiences as a teenage victim of
growing persecution, brutality and imprisonment as the Nazis
pursued the Final Solution. The author takes the reader back in
time as he reveals in vivid and engrossing details the painful
memories of life in his childhood town during Nazi occupation, the
forced march before his jeering and cold-eyed former friends and
neighbors as they are driven from their homes into the crowded and
terrible conditions in the Rzeszow ghetto, and the heart-wrenching
memory of his final farewell as he is separated from his parents
who would be sent in boxcars to the Belzec extermination camp.
Alone at age 14, George begins a three-year horror filled odyssey
as part of a Daimler-Benz slave labor group that will take him
through ten concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and France. In
Plaszow he digs up graves with his bare hands, in Flossenburg he
labors in a stone quarry and in France he works as a prisoner in a
secret tunnel the Nazis have converted into an armaments factory.
In every concentration camp including Sachsenhausen, Braunschweig,
Ravensbruck and others, George recounts the agonizing and
excruciating details of what it was like to barely survive the
rollcalls, selections, beatings, hunger, and despair he both
endured and witnessed. Of the 465 Jewish prisoners with him in the
labor group in the Rzeszow ghetto in 1942, less than fifty were
alive three years later when the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division
liberated the Wobbelin concentration camp on the afternoon of May
2, 1945. George recalls not only the painful details of his
survival, but also the tales of his fellow prisoners, a small group
who became more than friends as they shared their meager rations,
their fragile strength, and their waning hope. The memoir moves us
as we behold the life sustaining powers of friendship among this
band of young prisoners. With gratitude for his courageous
liberators, Salton expresses his powerful emotions as he
acknowledges his miraculous freedom: "I felt something stir deep
within my soul. It was my true self, the one who had stayed deep
within and had not forgotten how to love and how to cry, the one
who had chosen life and was still standing when the last roll call
ended."
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