Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora

“A harrowing story. A worthy supplement to the reports of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.” - Kirkus Reviews “This is a fascinating story of survival against the worst of odds.” - JT News A searing, brutal account of a French teenager’s survival in Auschwitz… and a major addition to Holocaust literature. In 1943, 18-year-old Pierre Berg picked the wrong time to visit a friend’s house—at the same time as the Gestapo. He was thrown into the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. But through a mixture of savvy and chance, he managed to survive… and ultimately got out alive. “As far as I’m concerned,” says Berg, “it was all shithouse luck, which is to say—inelegantly—that I kept landing on the right side of the randomness of life. “Such begins the first memoir of a French gentile Holocaust survivor published in the U.S. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, Scheisshaus Luck recounts Berg’s constant struggle in the...

Author: Berg Pierre, Brock Brian

ISBN: 9780814412992

Year of publication: 2008

Genre: Biographies and Memoirs

Number of pages: 301

Reading time: 5 h. 1 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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