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The survivor : how I made it through six concentration camps and became a Nazi hunter / Josef Lewkowicz with Michael Calvin.

How I made it through six concentration camps and became a Nazi hunter (portion title)
Lewkowicz, Josef, (author.). Calvin, Mike, (author.).

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"When Nazi forces entered Kraków, Poland, in 1939, unexpected and unresisted, Josef Lewkowicz's life became a nightmare overnight as he and his family were rounded up and sent to concentration camps across German-occupied territory. It wasn't long before Josef found himself face-to-face with SS kommandant Amon Goeth, whose brutality was made infamous by the film Schindler's List. As Josef struggled to survive the violence, horror, and degradations of one prison camp after another--his journey eventually spanning continents and taking him to the limits of human endurance--he was kept alive only by his faith and his profound sense of justice. A harrowing but ultimately uplifting glimpse into a pivotal moment in history, The Survivor is the story of one man's survival and pursuit of justice against all odds. The story of resilience and tenacity, and a desire for revenge redirected as a yearning to build a better future for humanity"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781400249527
  • ISBN: 140024952X
  • Physical Description: xxii, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: [New York, New York] : Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC, [2025]

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Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / by Rabbi Naftali Schiff with Jonathan Kalmus -- Prologue: Ghosts -- Family -- End of innocence -- The last goodbye -- Desecration of the dead -- Prisoners of fate -- The light of life -- From slave to pilgrim -- The stairway of death -- The limits of kindness -- Freedom -- Betrayal -- Beginning of the end -- Crime and punishment -- Save the children -- New horizons -- Love story -- Choose life -- Survivor.

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Subject: Lewkowicz, Josef.
Göth, Amon, 1908-1946.
Płaszów (Concentration camp) > Personal narratives.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) > Personal narratives.
Mauthausen (Concentration camp) > Personal narratives.
Melk (Concentration camp) > Personal narratives.
Ebensee (Concentration camp) > Personal narratives.
Holocaust survivors > Poland > Biography.
Nazi hunters > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Poland > Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps.
Genre: Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.

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Eden Library B Lewkowicz (Text) 31554012286562 Adult New Nonfiction Checked out 05/17/2025
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