"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . .
Astonishing" OBSERVER "A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If
This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON "A child's clear-eyed journey to hell"
ANNE SEBBA This is a story of a young boy's journey from a sleepy
provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the
concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a winter in
Bergen-Belsen where his father died, he and his mother were
liberated by the Americans outside a small German village, and
handed over to the Red Army. They escaped from the Russians, and
travelled, hiding on a goods train, through Prague to Budapest.
Unlike other books dealing with this period, this is not a
Holocaust story, but a child's recollection of a journey full of
surprise, excitement, bereavement and terror. Yet this remains a
testimony of survival, overcoming obstacles which to adults may
seem insurmountable but to a child were just part of an adventure
and, ultimately, recovery. After having established a career in the
West, the author decided to revisit the stages on his earlier
journeys, reliving the past through the perspective of the present.
Along the way, ghosts from the past are finally laid to rest by the
kindness of new friends. With an introduction by Lisa Appignanesi
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