Makor Library Publications

As a child, George experienced the Berlin of the 1930s, attending the 1936 Olympic games and witnessing the horrors of Kristallnacht. Evacuated to Belgium with the Kindertransport, George later tried to enter Switzerland but was betrayed by Swiss guards. Arrested as a spy, he underwent interrogation and torture in a Gestapo prison before being transported to Auschwitz, where he managed to survive for almost three years. He escaped from the death march evacuation. Miraculously he was reunited with his mother at war’s end. This is an extraordinary story that captures George’s incredible life force and will to survive.