Luck and Chutzpah: Against all odds - Hardcover

Halkin, Hillel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9652291595 ISBN 13: 9789652291592

Publisher: Gefen Books, 1997

Synopsis

This isn't another Holocaust book, it's an adventure story, says author Hans Kahn, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from the Nazis with no more than the shirt on his back.

Luck and Chutzpah is an exciting tale of daring, escape and adventure and about not giving in. It is a gripping, poignant and sometimes funny memoir of his flight from Holland to Belgium, France and Spain, where he sailed to England to join the Dutch Navy-In-Exile. He traveled under the assumed identity of a Belgium naval cadet, went by bicycle, foot and train, hid in coal bins and stowed away on a freighter, hobnobbed with smugglers, whores, priests, resistance fighters and Nazi officers, killed a German guard and holed up for two weeks in a French brothel while the Gestapo looked for him everywhere.

He gained his manhood and lost faith in all but himself as he fought to get to the sea which had been his first love. Kahn's story, so brilliantly re-told by Hillel Halkin, one of Israel's most respected writers and translators, is both riveting and inspiring.

"Kahn's perilous escape (from the Nazis) to join the free Dutch forces is a story of daring determination and intense passion."

Abraham Foxman National Director Anti-Defamation League

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Review:

A must read for every jew, to always strive for one's personal goals and to never give up. -- Joshua Bendahan, USA, April 2006 Joshua Bendahan

About this edition

• Publisher: Gefen Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 9652291595
• ISBN 13: 9789652291592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272