Survivor of Buchenwald: My Personal Odyssey Through Hell

by Gros, Louis; Whitlock, Flint

• ISBN13: 9781934980750
• ISBN10: 1934980757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-01
• Publisher: Cable Pub

Summary

I was only seventeen years old when the knock came on our door late one night. The French police barged in, arresting me and my father as members of the French Resistance. After months of incarceration in French prisons, two thousand men were jammed into twenty rail cars. Our destination was Buchenwald, the most horrific camp in Nazi Germany, where we were viewed by our SS keepers as expendable sub-humans and forced to work as slave laborers. I was beaten and starved. I witnessed brutal tortures and senseless murders. But I survived.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
The Valley of Saint-Martin	p. 5
The Train Ride to Hell	p. 17
An Eden in Buchenwald	p. 25
The Quarry Kommando	p. 45
From the Little Camp to the Big Camp	p. 59
Life and Death in KL Buchenwald	p. 67
Roll-Call Platz	p. 81
The Factory	p. 95
The Crematorium	p. 103
The Bombing of Buchenwald	p. 111
In the Ruins of the Factory	p. 123
The Train from Auschwitz	p. 135
An Outing to Weimar	p. 143
Last Man to be Hanged	p. 149
The Final Days of Buchenwald	p. 155
Liberation	p. 163
Report on Buchenwald	p. 181
Coming Home	p. 187
Epilogue: Disillusion	p. 209
Index	p. 221
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