The Survivor of the Holocaust

By Jack Eisner

Book Overview

Anniversary edition hardcover with a new foreword.

A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor's powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to smuggling food and arms for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and tenaciously enduring a series of brutal concentration camps, fighting for life against impossible odds.

When Hitler's Nazis marched into Poland, it brought an abrupt, cruel end to Jack Eisner's childhood, shattered his loving family, and turned his peaceful Jewish community into a nightmarish world of atrocity and murder. Instead of entering the Warsaw Music Conservatory, to which he'd won a scholarship, Jack found himself climbing cemetery walls, leaping over rooftops, and tunneling through sewers with a gang of fellow teenagers to smuggle food, hope, and survival into his besieged home.

Pulse-pounding and chillingly graphic, Jack's story takes you into the terror of the Warsaw ghetto . . . to the clandestine meetings with Christian friends who risk their lives to help the teenagers . . . and alongside young rebels as they raise the flag with the Star of David in the final, unforgettable moments of the daring but doomed Warsaw uprising.

From the rubble of the ghetto to the horror of the concentration and slave labor camps, The Survivor of the Holocaust is both a stunning chronicle and a poignant true story of a young man sustained by his passionate desire to be reunited with the girl he loves. It also stands as captivating memorial to the 100 members of a single family who perished, told by one among them who--pitted against overwhelming odds--clung fiercely to their life-affirming message.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806544430
• ISBN13: 9780806544434
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Must Read Book

It's my first time to really get into the picture of the holocaust as almost living the story by reading it, The story is more then amazing and get the reader into the actual world as lived by the author at that time. As much amazing the Nazie's viciousness you will be amazed by the young boy (the author) bravery against all chances. More then getting an historical event as seen by a movie about the holocaust, ANY ONE WILL LEARN from that story about the life we are living and more ..

AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE

This incredible piece of writing is a materpiece! I was engrossed in The Survivor from the first page and was deeply moved throughout. Jack Eisner's incredible true story of survival against all odds in the face of unimaginable human cruelty and brutality by the Nazis, should be compulsory reading for teenage secondary students!!

An unforgettable true story of courage.

After seeing the movie "The Pianist" I was reminded of the wonderful book "The Survivor," which I had read years ago. I'm now re-reading it.This is the remarkable story of a courageous teenager who suffered through one of humanity's darkest hours. Perhaps God protected him so that he could share his fantastic story with the world. My prayer is 'never again' will something so horrific happen in our world.

I read it twice!

Hello there, I'm not a big reader, but when I found your book at the library, it was too good and for the first time, I read it twice! I don't know how anybody could have make it through these circumstances. I recommanded it to my sister and she read it also. I always recommand it to all the poeple I know. This person is extraordinary! I'm still looking for a place where I could buy it.

The best book I ever read.

This book tells of a man's many narrow ecapes from death during the Holocaust. It tells of how he went from the Warsaw ghetto to a concentrtion camp and then to be liberated . This is a book you will never forget.