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Contents: A hazardous mission -- On the way to Europe -- Ari -- Vienna -- Crossing the Iron Curtain -- The escape -- The bridge -- The Danube -- Bratislava -- The bribe -- The drive -- The beginning of the end -- Buying favors -- Louis the Madman of Samorin -- A divine miracle at the Burial Authority -- The phantom -- The chairman -- Penetrating the jungle -- The house in Samorin -- Papa's castle -- Gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.73 BITTON-JAKCSON, LIV BITBlau, Magda Hellinger
Summary: "In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021