Name: The Survivor of the Holocaust
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Author: Jack Eisner
ISBN: 9780806544434

Anniversary edition hardcover with a new foreword.

A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor’s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to smuggling food and arms for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and tenaciously enduring a series of brutal concentration camps, fighting for life against impossible odds.

When Hitler’s Nazis marched into Poland, it brought an abrupt, cruel end to Jack Eisner’s childhood, shattered his loving family, and turned his peaceful Jewish community into a nightmarish world of atrocity and murder. Instead of entering the Warsaw Music Conservatory, to which he’d won a scholarship, Jack found himself climbing cemetery walls, leaping over rooftops, and tunneling through sewers with a gang of fellow teenagers to smuggle food, hope, and survival into his besieged home.

Pulse-pounding and chillingly graphic, Jack’s story takes you into the terror of the Warsaw ghetto . . . to the clandestine meetings with Christian friends who risk their lives to help the teenagers . . . and alongside young rebels as they raise the flag with the Star of David in the final, unforgettable moments of the daring but doomed Warsaw uprising.

From the rubble of the ghetto to the horror of the concentration and slave labor camps, The Survivor of the Holocaust is both a stunning chronicle and a poignant true story of a young man sustained by his passionate desire to be reunited with the girl he loves. It also stands as captivating memorial to the 100 members of a single family who perished, told by one among them who—pitted against overwhelming odds—clung fiercely to their life-affirming message.

Praise for Jack Eisner’s The Survivor of the Holocaust:

“Forty-five years ago, when the concept of a mass trove of Holocaust literature was still in its infancy but about to leap onto the page, a raw, vividly uncompromising memoir by a survivor opened up a whole new world of understanding of what had happened to the Jews of Europe during the war. Now that book, which burst open the bubble that had shielded readers from the intense personal trauma suffered by so many, has been reissued in a new edition, this time with a forward by the author’s granddaughters, who offer their pledge to make sure the Holocaust is never forgotten and never repeated. Jack Eisner’s The Survivor of the Holocaust offered a life-changing read back when it was first published, and offers a life-changing read yet again today, standing head and shoulders above many of the memoirs that have been written since 1980, when it first appeared.” —Jewish Book Council

“Searingly unforgettable…His experiences are so astonishing that often we forget we are reading about a teenager.” —Publishers Weekly

“We are fortunate in having the recollections, the courage, and the poetry of a man who survived and remembers it as it was.” —Abby, Mann, author of Judgement at Nuremberg

“There is something overwhelming, indeed terrifying, in trying to respond to the experience of this Jewish boy, Jack Eisner, characterized by the insuppressible will to live.” —Irving Howe, author of World of Our Fathers

“A powerful, devastating, yet ultimately uplifting memoir about the strength and courage of the human spirit against incredible odds. It is a brave and extraordinary book.” —Susan Strasberg, actress and author of Bittersweet

“An extraordinary account of the will to live and incredible human courage.” —Harold M. Proshansky, President, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

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