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Using the immediacy of an book and the ease of distilled truth, this Holocaust memoir already feels like a classic, like Elie Wiesel's Nighttime and Primo Levi's Success in Auschwitz. Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family accumulated behind the draperies to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish) neighborhood friends of the small town in european Poland greet the appearance of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika flags. Within times, the house had been seized, 12-year-old Roman got turn into a slave of the local SS main, and, coming back from an errand, he silently observed his Jewish classmates being bayoneted to loss of life by soldiers at the edge of town. So began his impressive six-year quest through a few of the darkest caverns of Nazi Europe that claimed the lives of each other member of his family and the 800-strong community of his boyhood. Amazingly, he survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, the Stutthof amount camp, and work as a slave laborer in a manufacturing plant in Dresden, where he endured the fire-bombing that destroyed the town. He later managed to break free from the SS on a loss of life march, and lasted out the finish of the conflict in concealing with a daring German couple, only to go back to his native town to think it is completely changed: emptied of Jews, rife with anti-Semitism and envy, no longer resembling anything like home. In unadorned yet powerful, sometimes harrowing prose, he says his indelible tale with a ease and grace that allow the facts of his suffering and success speak for themselves.
