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Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly…
removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Winner of Canada Reads 2019. Bestseller. 2016.
The Jewish author recounts his experiences living in a region of Czechoslovakia that was annexed into Hungary, the subsequent Hungarian…
deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous "death march" in 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and his journey of physical and psychological healing. Some violence. 2016