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By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz / Max Eisen.

Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.C95 E57 2016

This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.

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Format: Book
Author/Creator: Eisen, Max. author.
Published: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins, [2016]
©2016
Locale: Canada
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Oświęcim
Language: English
External Link: Blog
Gallery and media
Edition: First edition

Physical Description: xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781443449281
1443449288 (hardcover)
9781443448536 (original trade paperback)
1443448532 (original trade paperback)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Jews, Czech--Canada--Biography.
Jews--Czechoslovakia--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia.
Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Biography.
Eisen, Max.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Biography.
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