Table of Contents

The Shadows Spread
Mother's Trees Stand Naked
Signs of Danger
The Christian Disguise
Revenge Denied
The Noose Tightens
Very Bad News
Compassion Rewarded
Captured
Fall of the Jewish Police
Scrambling for Life in the Camps
Snatched and Shipped
Construction for Destruction
Hoodwinking the Death Merchants
The Fifty Dollar Break
Tiptoeing On a Razor Blade: The Underground and Mengele
Healing by Butter Knife
A Happy Delivery Man
Mengele Saves a Life
Death and a Job Switch
On the Ramp
Daring and Death
Hangman
Trapped in Concrete
Sabotage and Glue
Death on the March
Freedom for What?

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The story of a remarkable young man who endured three Nazi death camps, a death march, and who saved the lives of many fellow inmates through ingenuity and compassion.

About the Author

JOE ROSENBLUM was born in Miedzyrzec, Poland, a town slowly strangled to death by the Nazis./e Though Joe lost most of his family in the Holocaust, he saved numerous other people as well as himself through almost unflagging optimism, luck and ingenuity. He endured three death camps and a death march. After being liberated, Joe worked in Germany for a couple of years before immigrating to the United States, where he has flourished in the building and painting business. Joe remains in contact with several of the people mentioned in this book and continues to run several family businesses.

DAVID KOHN is a freelance writer who has been in the writing business for 25 years./e He has worked in various capacities on several books. As a versatile co-author, ghostwriter, and editor, David has worked on book topics ranging from medicine to magic to memoirs.

Reviews

"Joe Rosenblum's story of survival through the Holocaust is a remarkable tale of resourcefulness, ingenuity and luck, which is all the more powerful for its direct and straightforward narrative. The opening scene of fleeing refugees picking clean the fruit trees in his mother's orchard in Poland presage the horrors that we know are to come. His ordeal through labor brigades, concentration camps and death marches bring the reader directly to the places--and the people--who have come to symbolize the ultimate evil. Although one wants to rejoice when Joe's liberation by American soldiers comes at the end of the war, such feelings are tempered by the reality of the Holocaust in which so many millions of people, including most of the author's family and friends, were not so fortunate."-Rabbi Andrew Baker Director of European Affairs The American Jewish Committee

"You'll be crying and you'll be cheering as this teenager, with a will to survive against all odds though he's reduced to a starving animal, outwits the Nazis at their own game. It's an emotionally charged saga."-Arthur Hiller, Film Director