Buy this book on-line PIVNIK, SAM: : Survivor: Auschwitz,The Death March and My Fight for FreedomLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2012. ISBN 9781444759375.
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Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists.On fourteen occasions he should have been killed,but luck, his physical strength and his determination not to die,all played a part in Sam Pivnik living to tell his extraordinary life story.
In 1939,on his thirteenth birthday,his life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland.He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing.After this harrowing experience he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp.He could have died on the 'Death march' that took him west as the Third Reich collapsed and he was one of only a handful of people who swam to safety when the Royal Air Force sank the prison ship Cap Arcona,in 1945, mistakenly believing it to be carrying fleeing members of the SS.
He eventually made his way to London where he found people too preoccupied with their own wartime experiences on the Home Front to be interested in what happened to him.
Now in his eighties,Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life,a tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.
Sam Pivnik was born on 1 September 1926 in Bedzin,inSouth-western Poland,near the border with Germany.In 1943 the family were sent to Auschwitz II/Birkenau where Sam's father and mother,his two sisters and his three younger brothers were murdered.San Pivnik was tattooed with prisoner number 135913 and put to work in various parts of Auschwitz and on nearby slave labour projects.After many close encounters with death,he was eventually liberated by the British Army in Neustadt in May 1945.He built a life as a respected art dealer in London after the war and now shares his memories with a wider public through lectures and talks.
M J Trow who has worked with Sam Pivnik on 'Survivor',is the author of many books on historical subjects of all eras, including 'Let Him Have It,Chris' and 'War Crimes'; he has collaborated on 'Open Skies,Closed Minds' and 'Hess: the British Conspiracy.' He studied military history at King's College,London and now broadcasts and lectures regularly throughout the world.
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