By Chance Alone

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel s Night and Primo Levi s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivorMore than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz Birkenau, back breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing.Tibor Max Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt In the spring of1944 five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family s yearly Passover Seder gendarmes 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 fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he 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 and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last twenty two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world.The author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding. Free Download By Chance Alone by Max Eisen For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr EDITED on March 28, 2019 This morning BY CHANCE ALONE has been declared the Winner of CANADA READS 2019 I think that you can watch the recording of this on YOUTUBE Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people Heinrich HeineBY CHANCE ALONE A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF COURAGE AND SURVIVAL AT AUSCHWITZ by Max Eisen has been long listed for Canada Reads 2019 Thanks to Canada Reads for bringing this book to my attention My father reached out across t EDITED on March 28, 2019 This morning BY CHANCE ALONE has been declared the Winner of CANADA READS 2019 I think that you can watch the recording of this on YOUTUBE Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people Heinrich HeineBY CHANCE ALONE A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF COURAGE AND SURVIVAL AT AUSCHWITZ by Max Eisen has been long listed for Canada Reads 2019 Thanks to Canada Reads for bringing this book to my attention My father reached out across the wire and blessed me with a classic Jewish prayer May G d bless you and safeguard you May He be gracious unto you May He turn His countenance to you and give you peace Then he said, If you survive, you must tell the world what happened here Now go These last words that Max heard from his father stayed with him throughout his life More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were l...In his powerful memoir, Holocaust survivor Max Eisen details his early years, his internment in Auschwitz and his emigration to Canada.When the 2019 Canada Reads longlist was announced, I had hoped By Chance Alone would be selected for the shortlist I suppose I would have read it eventually, but in a year where the theme was one book to move you , By Chance Alone seemed to fit perfectly I look forward to Ziya Tong s defence because I believe this is a heavy favorite to win although, I ve y In his powerful memoir, Holocaust survivor Max Eisen details his early years, his internment in Auschwitz and his emigration to Canada.When the 2019 Canada Reads longlist was announced, I had hoped By Chance Alone would be selected for the shortlist I suppose I would have read it eventually, but in a year where the theme was one book to move you , By Chance Alone seemed to fit perfectly I look forward to Ziya Tong s defence because I believe this is a heavy favorite to win although, I ve yet to read the other four titles.Books detailing the Holocaust are never an easy read and Max Eisen s account is no exception Like many, Max s journey to Auschwitz is heartbreaking to say the least The confusion surrounding his family s removal from their home to the absolutely horrendous travel conditions leading to their arrival in the ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here In May 1944 when Max Eisen was 15, he and his family his parents, younger siblings, grandparents, uncle, and aunt were transported in a cattle car from their home territory near the Czechoslovakian Hungarian border to Auschwitz II Birkenau There were nearly forty train cars in this particular transport, and each of them was packed with a hundred people For the three years prior to this, Max s father and uncle had been forced to work with no remuneration in German labour battalions Meanwhi In May 1944 when Max Eisen was 15, he and his family his parents, younger siblings, grandparents, uncle, and aunt were transported in a cattle car from their home territory near the Czechoslovakian Hungarian border to Auschwitz II Birkenau There were nearly forty train cars in this particular transport, and each of them was packed with a hundred people For the three years prior to this, Max s father and uncle had been forced to work with no remuneration in German labour battalions Meanwhile, the women, elders, and children struggled to make do at home In August 1942, Max and those family members not doing forced labour had already been ordered, along with other Jewish families, to ma...I can t possibly rate this What I can say is that we are exceedingly LUCKY that Mr Eisen took the time and effort to record his experience in WWII as a Jewish refugee It s horrific to read, but necessary that he did this I m honoured to read his work, and embarrass...I will admit I was disappointed with three nonfiction picks on the Canada Reads shortlist this year I was especially hesitant to read this memoir about life at Auschwitz, but you know what We all need a good dose of reality now and then Eisen s s...By Chance Alone truly is a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Aushchwitz It is hard to imagine the devastating loss and unbelievable abuse of human beings Max Tibor Eisen has truly shared the experience of the concentration camp and honoure...This man is my hero because he never gave in He did it Remarkable story under dismal circumstances Very eye opening Would love to see hear him speak.We all know about the holocaust It s no secret Still, I find that whenever I read anything from a holocaust survivor, there is always something new I learn,horrific details I hadn t yet known of, about what happened during the war and in the concentration camps.Max Eisen s memoir, which details his year in Auschwitz at fourteen fifteen years old, is both a memoir full of the horrors we ve come to know and some we at least I didn t about the holocaust as well as his unique experienc We all know about the holocaust It s no secret Still, I find that whenever I read anything from a holocaust survivor, there is always something new I learn,horrific details I hadn t yet known of, about what happened during the war and in the concentration camps.Max Eisen s memoir, which details his year in Auschwitz at fourteen fifteen years old, is both a memoir full of the horrors we ve come to know and some we at least I didn t about the holocaust as well as his unique experience of unexpectedly becoming an assistant to the camp s surgeon a Polish political prisoner after having been sent to the makeshift hospital with a head wound caused by an SS guard, and how by that chance alone he was able to avoid the gas chambers long enough to see...Great book I really enjoy reading books on WWII but they always leave me so sad and depressed because the things that were done are just so extremely awful I mean you know these things happened but you re reading it and you just cannot understand how this is real The cruelty I just can t even understand it I literally cannot understand how people did and do these things to others I feel like it is so important to remind people of what was done so that people remember how their actions or i Great book I really enjoy reading books on WWII but they always leave me so sad and depressed because the things that were done are just so extremely awful I mean you know these things happened but you re reading it and you just cannot understand how this is real The cruelty I just can t even understand it I literally cannot understand how people did and do these things to others I feel like it is so important to remind people of what was done so that people remember how their actions or inaction can spiral It s so crazy to think of the strength that humans have when they need to it s just so awful that anybody in this world ever needs to be that strong I read this and think that there is no way I could have possibly made it through a day let alone years of this My mind can t even comprehend it It does however leave me with a positive feeling of deep a...Alice Munro, in her Selected Stories, once wrote A story is not like a road to follow it slike a house You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or Alice Munro, in her Selected Stories, once wrote A story is not like a road to follow it slike a house You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always containsthan you saw the last time It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you This quote lends itself to the reading of Max Eisen s By Chance Alone, as we read about a topic that seems to have been explored at length and, in my ignorant opinion, in greater prosaic form by the likes of Levi and Wiesel But my interest i...I can t give this terrifying book anything less than a 5 star review The story that Max Eisen tells of his early life as a young Hungarian Jew who spent over a year in Auschwitz is horrific and graphic, but very, very real Mr Eisen is a Canadian citizen now, and he lets us see, in graphic detail, his journey from Moldava, Czechoslovakia to Aushwitz Birkenau, to camps in Melk and Ebieseee and post war Marenbad, Prague and finally Canada where he finally arrives in 1949, will make your blood ru I can t give this terrifying book anything less than a 5 star review The story that Max Eisen tells of his early life as a young Hungarian Jew who spent over a year in Auschwitz is horrific and graphic, but very, very real Mr Eisen is a Canadian citizen now, and he lets us see, in graphic detail, his journey from Moldava, Czechoslovakia to Aushwitz Birkenau, to camps in Melk and Ebieseee and post war Marenbad, Prague and finally Canada where he finally arrives in 1949, will make your blood run cold Young Max was only 15 when he was taken from his family home, with all the members of his family in the spring of 1944 Upon arrival in Auschwitz, after a horrendous journey of many days, Max is separated from his mother, two younger brothers and 9 month old baby sister Judit He doesn t know that he will never see them again His father, uncle and yo...

• English
• 21 August 2017
Max Eisen
• Hardcover
• 304 pages
• 1443449288
• Max Eisen
• By Chance Alone