Survivor
One man's incredible true story of surviving Auschwitz, escaping the Death March and fighting for his freedom
$25.03
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2013
Summary
Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength and his determination not to die all played a part in Sam Pivnik living to tell his extraordinary life story.
In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, his 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444758399 |
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| ISBN-10: | 144475839X |
| Author: | Sam Pivnik |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 164mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two |
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‘This vivid memoir’. - Peter Condradi, Sunday Times
Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler’s death camps have been fully exposed, we’ve heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven’t. That’s the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam’s is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards. - The Big Issue‘The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying…The fear seems real, and smells real’. - Good Book GuidePowerful, absorbing and - tragically - entirely truthful, Hollocaust survivor Sam Pivnik is a remarkable storyteller. - Ham & High - Daniel WittenbergFrank, brutal and horrifying. - The Good Book Guide‘This vivid memoir’. - Peter Condradi, Sunday TimesSixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler’s death camps have been fully exposed, we’ve heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven’t. That’s the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam’s is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards. - The Big Issue‘The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying…The fear seems real, and smells real’. - Good Book GuideAbout The Author
Sam Pivnik
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 Ultimate Survivor, is the author of many books on historical subjects of all eras, including Let Him Have It, Chris, 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.
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