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Dronfield, Jeremy author.
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Kleinmann, Gustav, 1891-1976.
Kleinmann, Fritz, 1923-
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives.
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The stone crusher : the true story of a father and son's fight for survival in Auschwitz / Jeremy Dronfield.
by
Dronfield, Jeremy author.
Subjects
Kleinmann
, Gustav, 1891-1976.
Kleinmann
,
Fritz
,
1923-
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives.
Publisher Info:
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2018]
©2018
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 388 pages ; 24 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9781613739631
161373963X
Contents:
Part I: Vienna -- "When Jewish blood drips from the knife..." -- Traitors to the people -- Part II: Buchenwald -- Blood and stone: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald -- The stone crusher -- The road to life -- A favorable decision -- The new world -- Unworthy of life -- A thousand kisses -- A trip to death -- Part III: Auschwitz -- A town called Oświecim -- Auschwitz-Monowitz -- The end of Gustav
Kleinmann
, Jew -- Resistance and collaboration: the death of
Fritz
Kleinmann
-- The kindness of strangers -- Far from home -- Resistance and betrayal -- Part IV: Survival -- Death train -- Mauthausen -- The end of days -- The long way home -- Epilogue: Jewish blood
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"In 1939, Gustav
Kleinmann
, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his 16-year old son
Fritz
, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build Buchenwald, young
Fritz
learning construction skills which would help preserve him from extermination in the coming years. But it was his bond with his father that would ultimately keep them both alive. When the 50-year old Gustav was transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz was determined to go with him. His wiser friends tried to dissuade him--"If you want to keep living, you have to forget your father," they said. But that was impossible, and
Fritz
pleaded for a place on the Auschwitz transport. "He is a true comrade," Gustav wrote in his secret diary, "always at my side. The boy is my greatest joy. We are inseparable." Gustav kept his diary hidden throughout his six years in the death camps--even
Fritz
knew nothing of it. In it he recorded his story, a tale of survival and a father-son bond which proved stronger than the machine that sought to break them both"--
"Along with his 16-year old son
Fritz
, Gustav
Kleinmann
, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. Gustav kept his diary hidden throughout his six years in the death camps--even
Fritz
knew nothing of it"--
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