The Survivor of the Holocaust

Anniversary edition hardcover with a new foreword. A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor’s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student to smuggling food and arms for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and tenaciously enduring a series of brutal concentration camps fighting for life against impossible odds. When Hitler’s Nazis marched into Poland it brought an abrupt cruel end to Jack Eisner’s childhood shattered his loving family and turned his peaceful Jewish community into a nightmarish world of atrocity and murder. Instead of entering the Warsaw Music Conservatory to which he’d won a scholarship Jack found himself climbing cemetery walls leaping over rooftops and tunneling through sewers with a gang of fellow teenagers to smuggle food hope and survival into his besieged home. Pulse-pounding and chillingly graphic Jack’s story takes you into the terror of the Warsaw ghetto .