Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into a Jewish family. But in the spring of 1944 — five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family's yearly Passover feast — armed guards forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At 15 years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer. One day, Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured, he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician, Tadeusz Orzeszko, operated on him. Despite his significant injury, Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation, Eisen to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last 22 years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life in Canada. Book Trailer: https://www.cbc.ca/books/by-chance-alone-by-max-eisen-1.4024041 Excerpt: Pages 3-4 FYI: This book is rated m for mature.
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