Abe's story: A Holocaust memoir - Softcover

Abram Korn; Joseph Korn

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9780967004105: Abe's story: A Holocaust memoir

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ISBN 10: 0967004101 ISBN 13: 9780967004105

Publisher: New Millennium Press, 1999

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Book by Abram Korn, Joseph Korn

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Korn began writing his memoir in 1969 and finished it in 1972, just before his death; it was edited by his son, Joseph. Abram Korn, a Polish Jew, was 16 when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Along with his parents and two younger sisters, Korn was moved to a ghetto from which he escaped (and he never saw his family again). Eventually, he was caught, beaten, and left for dead by the Nazis. Then he was sent to Hardt concentration camp and later to Auschwitz, where he suffered from cold, hunger, and physical and psychological abuse. In January 1945, Korn and other inmates were forced to leave Auschwitz ahead of the advancing Russian troops and were taken to another camp in the freezing cold. From there Korn was sent to Buchenwald. In April 1945, American troops liberated the camp, and in 1949 the author came to the U.S. Abe's Story is a personal account--in simple, unaffected prose--of one man's horrifying odyssey through the Holocaust. George Cohen

From Library Journal:

We've heard the story before: the unsuspecting Polish-Jewish family bombed out by the Nazis, then herded into ghettos and concentration camps; the hardships and brutality; the struggle, perseverance, and small acts of kindness; and the miracles that enable some to survive to tell the tale. While Korn's story is not very different from those written by other Holocaust survivors, it is unique in its particulars. The rest of his family was killed in the camps, and he married a German girl and emigrated to the United States, where he built a successful business. He died in 1972; his son, who edited this memoir, was 19 at the time. Straightforward in its telling and moving in its honesty, this is a poignant reminder of Holocaust atrocities. A worthwhile addition to adult and young adult collections.?Marcia Welsh, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.
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