Max Eisen
Författare till By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
Verk av Max Eisen
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1929-03-15
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Hungary
Canada - Födelseort
- Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia
- Bostadsorter
- Auschwitz, Poland
Mauthausen, Austria
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Yrken
- public speaker
Holocaust educator
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Kort biografi
- Max Eisen was born to a tightknit Jewish family in Moldava nad Bodvou, Czechoslovakia. Besides his parents, two brothers and sister, he lived with his uncle, aunt, and paternal grandparents, and was surrounded by a large extended family of some 60 members.
In 1939, they were all deported by the Nazis to the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Near the end of the war, Max was sent on a 13-day death march from Auschwitz to Loslau, from which he was transported to concentration camps Mauthausen and then Melk. From there, he was forced on a three-day march in the mountains to Ebensee, Austria. He survived to be liberated by American troops in May 1945. From his extended family, only two cousins also survived. Max emigrated to Canada, where he settled in Toronto and married Ivy Cosman, with whom he had two children.
He attributed his survival, in part, to the heroism of Dr. Tadeusz Orzeszko, a Polish political prisoner and surgeon at Auschwitz, who took pity on him after a brutal beating by a Nazi guard and engaged him to be his assistant. Many years later, Max learned that Dr. Orzeszko was a member of the Polish Resistance. He also cited the help he received from Sgt. Johnnie Steven of the U.S. 761st Tank Battalion (known as the Black Panthers) at liberation.
In 2016, he published his memoirs as By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz, which was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize in 2017.
The book won the 2019 edition of Canada Reads. He has been a public speaker and educator on the Holocaust for more than 30 years. Portions of his story appear in the film Come Out Fighting: The 761st (2002), and in the book Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations Eli Rubenstein (2016).
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 153
- Popularitet
- #136,480
- Betyg
- 4.2
- Recensioner
- 6
- ISBN
- 9
- Språk
- 1
This was a well written and engaging book. It is heartbreaking to think of a fifteen year old being separated from his family, yet through strength of will, and chance, Max survived. Overall, highly recommended.… (mer)