Contributor(s):Author: Martin Baranek Contribution by: Lisa B.
Shining through on every page of this exceptionally moving tale are Martin\'s courage, perseverance and sheer will to live under the most brutal of conditions This painfully honest account is a true testament to the power of the human spirit to triumph over u.
But his survival was not just a matter of luck.
Unlike 6 million other Jews, the doors Martin Baranek went through appeared for him at just the right time.
If even one door opened or closed at the wrong time, your fate was sealed.
Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "It has been said that a thousand doors had to open and close in the exact right time and succession in order for one to survive the Holocaust.
Martin\'s overall story remains very powerful."--Christopher R.
They were followed by Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, with each stage of his incredible odyssey more challenging and horrifying than the previous one.
As his powerful Memoir records, these were but the first two circles of Hitler\'s inferno through which he descended in the years of the Holocaust.
Martin Baranek\'s journey is a triumph of hope over despair."--Rabbi Gary Glickstein "I first encountered Martin Baranek as an articulate and reflective survivor in the course of my research on the Wierzbnik ghetto and the Starachowice slave labor camps.
I found it riveting and gut wrenching.
It is also one human being\'s intense will to survive and rebuild his life anew.
This is an eye opening window into humanity at its lowest and cruelest.
The fact that in this book Martin\'s own words testify in some detail to his experiences from ghetto to work camp to extermination camps to death march to liberation and eventual arrival to the Land of Israel, powerfully teaches us that the unbelievable actually happened.
Cicero"If Martin Baranek\'s Memoir of his hellish journey were fiction, I would dismiss it as beyond comprehension.
Contributor(s):Author: Martin Baranek Contribution by: Lisa B
