CONTENTS ForewordPreface 1. Witness and survivor 2. Family and early years 3. A mother's difficult decision 4. Orphanage 5. Return home, 19396. My crime7. Return of the nazis 8. Life gets worse9. A mother's intuition 10. Plaszow 11. Number 1289112. One day at Plaszow 13. Children in Plaszow 14. Wieliczka 15. The front comes closer 16. Journey to Mauthausen 17. Arbeit Macht Frei. Mauthausen 18. Work in Mauthausen 19. Melk 20. Work underground21. The horror continues 22. Humanity within the barbed wire 23. Conversation with a German Officer24. Death march 25. Ebensee 26. Beginning of the end. The Tower of Babel 27. Life goes on 28. Work and housing 29. The United States 30. Greeting from uncle Sam 31. Our life in a nutshell 32. The search for family 33. March of the living 34. Postscript - personal letters and reflections from loved ones Acknowledgements Epilogue Pictures Notes Kind Request Amsterdam Publishers Further ReadingA teenager living in a Jewish orphanage. Nazis marching into his Polish village in 1939.A teenager living in a Jewish orphanage. Nazis marching into his Polish village in 1939.How will the 14-year-old boy survive the brutalities on his own and keep his humanity?This shocking memoir of Holocaust Survivor Hank Brodt (1925-2020) offers a personal glimpse into the inner world of a boy under the Nazi regime, shedding light on sickening truths in an honest, matter-of-fact way.Hank Brodt lived through one of the darkest periods of human history and survived the devastation of World War II. Born into a poor family in Boryslaw (Poland), he was placed in a Jewish orphanage. Hank’s childhood is shattered when the Nazis brutally enter Poland. Over the next years he waged a daily battle to survive and lost his whole family. Moving from forced labor camps to concentration camps, one of which features in Schindler’s List, his world behind the barbed wire consisted of quiet resistance, invisible tears and silent cries.It is hard to believe that someone who endured such horrific events could go on to live a life of gratitude - to this very day. Through his unwavering compassion towards others, Brodt managed to keep his humanity and find a way to move forward.Hank Brodt’s Holocaust memoirs are a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest times in the history of human civilization.A teenager living in a Jewish orphanage. Nazis marching into his Polish village in 1939.How will the 14-year-old boy survive the brutalities on his own and keep his humanity?This shocking memoir of Holocaust Survivor Hank Brodt (1925-2020) offers a personal glimpse into the inner world of a boy under the Nazi regime, shedding light on sickening truths in an honest, matter-of-fact way.Hank Brodt lived through one of the darkest periods of human history and survived the devastation of World War II. Born into a poor family in Boryslaw (Poland), he was placed in a Jewish orphanage. Hank’s childhood is shattered when the Nazis brutally enter Poland. Over the next years he waged a daily battle to survive and lost his whole family. Moving from forced labor camps to concentration camps, one of which features in Schindler’s List, his world behind the barbed wire consisted of quiet resistance, invisible tears and silent cries.It is hard to believe that someone who endured such horrific events could go on to live a life of gratitude - to this very day. Through his unwavering compassion towards others, Brodt managed to keep his humanity and find a way to move forward.Hank Brodt’s Holocaust memoirs are a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest times in the history of human civilization.