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With spare prose and in stark images, Joseph Freeman recounts his suffering during the Holocaust from the German invasion of Poland to the liberation of Europe by the Allies. Freeman's narrative includes sober accounts of Nazi atrocities, aching portraits of the noble spirits and unsung heroes who were counted among the walking dead of the concentration camps, and the profoundly moving story of the unexpected reunion of Freeman and the American G.I. who had lifted Freeman's dying body from the mire of a battlefield 40 years earlier.

Both poignant and exquisite in its simplicity, Joseph Freeman's autobiography is at once a shibboleth for those who also endured the unspeakable and a haunting warning for those of us living in these latter days, when the voices of deniers and revisionists of the Holocaust wait to take the place of the aging witnesses who grow weary of their vigil.

Preface
Introduction
Before the Destruction
Early School Years in Radom
Father's Family in Staszow
Gymnasium and University Years
Hashoah
September 1, 1939
Walowa Street Ghetto
How the City of Radom Died
Selections for the Death Camps
Kromolowsky Factory
Business at Kromolowsky
Isaac
The Ghetto Reduced
Winter 1942-43
"Exchange" of Intellectuals
Letters
Szkolna
Auschwitz
Vaihingen
Schoemberg
First Day
Order
Lester
Lying with the Dead
Hospital in Schoemberg
Transports
Spaichingen
Rebirth
Liberation
Hospital in Fussen
Feldafing
Return to Radom
Helen
Munich
Pasadena
Broken Silence
Return to the Ruins
Gates of Tomorrow
Glossary