Death March Escape by Jack J. Hersch
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on January 24, 2019. BookTrib is running it again for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Dragging himself weakly, he made it to the side of the road. To go to the side of the road meant death. It was a firm rule of the ‘transports.’ He sat down on a boulder, took off his wooden shoes, and waited to die. An SS trooper guarding the march spotted him sitting, and walked towards him, his pistol ready.” “‘We looked right at each other. I looked right into his eyes. Then he looked at my shoes on the ground, then back to me, and I don’t know what happened. He kept walking! He walked right past me!'” That’s one of the incredible anecdotes from a book overflowing with them. Given the story, you’d expect nothing less. Death March Escape (Frontline Books) by Jack J. Hersch is the true, unimaginable story of his father, David Arieh Hersch, who twice escaped death marches during the Nazi Holocaust. It’s the story of David’s countless ailments, emotional torture, other unexplainable horrors and remarkable escapes from the concentration camps. But it also is the tale of how Jack, having long heard his father’s story of survival and escape, came upon a photograph of his father on the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial’s website — launching him into an all-consuming mission to learn the secrets his father never told him.Want more BookTrib? Sign up NOW for news and giveaways!
Genre: Nonfiction
Author: Jack J. Hersch
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 9781526740230
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