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Thursday, 23 December 2021

Book Review: The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

 Under the Nuremberg laws of 1935, Austrian Jews were stripped of their citizenship. Anti-Semitism under the Nazis grew to a crescendo. Gustav and Fritz, father and son, are among the first to be deported to Buchenwald. From Gustav's diaries and Fritz's recollections, together with corroborative evidence drawn from a multitude of sources, Jeremy Dronfield tells the story of their long-suffering, and their ability to stay alive and stay together as much as possible, despite the overwhelming odds.


The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: Jeremy Dronfield - Amazon