This is the story of a young man caught in the whirlwind of the Holocaust, who survives a chain of events so harrowing they almost defy belief. As a boy, Joe Rosenblum watches as the Nazi overlords tighten their grip on his small Polish town. Narrowly escaping mass executions that take his own brother, Rosenblum is first sheltered by a local Gentile family, then takes refuge with Russian partisans. Once captured by the Germans, he begins a journey through three concentration camps-Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Dachau.
Living by his wits, a courier for the camp underground, Rosenblum is able to help other prisoners, and even to save children selected for the gas chambers. Eventually he finds himself working for the infamous Dr. Mengele. In a bizarre twist of fate, the Angel of Death is persuaded to perform life-saving surgery on Rosenblum-perhaps making him the only Jew to be saved by the deadly doctor's skills.
A remarkable man who danced on the razor's edge of history, Rosenblum did not merely survive the Holocaust, but rose above it by radiating hope and humanity-by defying the darkness.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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?
