Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom

Author(s): Sam Pivnik

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Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Sam Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing. After this harrowing experience he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp. He could have died on the 'Death March' that took him west as the Third Reich collapsed and he was one of only a handful of people who swam to safety when the Royal Air Force sank the prison ship Cap Arcona, in 1945, mistakenly believing it to be carrying fleeing members of the SS. Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.

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Sam Pivnik was born on 1 September 1926 in Bedzin, in South-western Poland, near the border with Germany. In 1943 the family were sent to Auschwitz II/Birkenau where Sam's father and mother, his two sisters and his three younger brothers were murdered. He built a life as a respected art dealer in London after the war and now shares his memories with a wider public through lectures and talks. M J Trow who has worked with Sam Pivnik on SURVIVOR, is the author of many books on historical subjects of all eras, including Let Him Have It, Chris and War Crimes, he has collaborated on Open Skies, Closed Minds, and Hess: the British Conspiracy. He studied military history at King's College, London and now broadcasts and lectures regularly throughout the world.

General Fields

  • : 9781444758399
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Hodder Paperback
  • : 0.24
  • : April 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 320
  • : 940.5318092
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Sam Pivnik