Romeks Odyssee : Jugend im Holocaust

Memoirs of a Polish Jew (1929-1993), born near Łódź, who was the only survivor of his family. Relates the life story of his sister, Bronia, and his own experiences in the Holocaust. In April 1940 the family was interned in the Łódź ghetto. The parents died from starvation and cold. Eichenbaum, his brother, and his sister were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Bronia survived several camps; however, in winter 1944-45, already suffering from tuberculosis, she was taken, with other Jews, from Stutthof to the Baltic Sea, sent to sea on a leaky boat, and drowned. Eichenbaum and his brother Moniek were in Auschwitz about three weeks, and were then sent to labor camps. His brother died near Ebensee, four weeks before the end of the war, on a death march. Eichenbaum was liberated near Wels, in Austria, in May 1945. In 1947 he emigrated to the U.S. Pp. 117-170, "Das Verfahren gegen M.H. Rumkowski", contain a dramatization of an imaginary trial of the head of the Judenrat in the Łódź ghetto. 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm