| ISBN |
9780241359198 |
| 0241359198 |
| Author |
Dronfield, Jeremy author. |
| Title |
The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz / |
| Publication |
[London] ::
Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books,
2019. |
| Physical description |
xv, 415 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Also published as: The stone crusher : the true story of a father and son's fight for survival in Auschwitz. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2018]. |
| References |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz, a certain death sentence, Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son. Based on Gustav's secret diary and meticulous archive research, this book tells his and Fritz's story for the first time - a story of courage and survival unparalleled in the history of the Holocaust. |
| Subject |
Kleinmann, Gustav,1891-1976 |
| Kleinmann, Fritz,1923- |
| Buchenwald (Concentration camp) |
| Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria --Vienna --Personal narratives |
| Fathers and sons--Austria --Vienna --Biography |
| Jewish families--Austria --Vienna --Biography |
| Jews--Austria --Vienna --History 1933-1945--Biography |
| Concentration camp inmates--Biography |
| Added author |
Kleinmann, Kurt author of foreword. |
| Alternate title |
The stone crusher. |
| Shelf Location |
940.5318/DRO |
