Obras de Max Eisen
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-03-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Hungary
Canada - Lugar de nacimiento
- Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia
- Lugares de residencia
- Auschwitz, Poland
Mauthausen, Austria
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Ocupaciones
- public speaker
Holocaust educator
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Biografía breve
- Max Eisen was born to a tightknit Jewish family in Moldava nad Bodvou, Czechoslovakia. Besides his parents, two brothers and sister, he lived with his uncle, aunt, and paternal grandparents, and was surrounded by a large extended family of some 60 members.
In 1939, they were all deported by the Nazis to the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Near the end of the war, Max was sent on a 13-day death march from Auschwitz to Loslau, from which he was transported to concentration camps Mauthausen and then Melk. From there, he was forced on a three-day march in the mountains to Ebensee, Austria. He survived to be liberated by American troops in May 1945. From his extended family, only two cousins also survived. Max emigrated to Canada, where he settled in Toronto and married Ivy Cosman, with whom he had two children.
He attributed his survival, in part, to the heroism of Dr. Tadeusz Orzeszko, a Polish political prisoner and surgeon at Auschwitz, who took pity on him after a brutal beating by a Nazi guard and engaged him to be his assistant. Many years later, Max learned that Dr. Orzeszko was a member of the Polish Resistance. He also cited the help he received from Sgt. Johnnie Steven of the U.S. 761st Tank Battalion (known as the Black Panthers) at liberation.
In 2016, he published his memoirs as By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz, which was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize in 2017.
The book won the 2019 edition of Canada Reads. He has been a public speaker and educator on the Holocaust for more than 30 years. Portions of his story appear in the film Come Out Fighting: The 761st (2002), and in the book Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations Eli Rubenstein (2016).
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- 2
- Miembros
- 154
- Popularidad
- #135,795
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 9
- Idiomas
- 1
This was very good. There are plenty of books on the Holocaust, but of course everyone had a slightly different experience and there are always new things to learn from all those experiences. Max’s promise to his father was that he’d tell people what happened there, and he also tours and talks about his experience (or he did – he was eighty-something when this book was written and/or published in 2016). He ended up in Canada, married, and had two sons.… (más)