Being an amateur historian, the Holocaust is one of the things that fascinates & scares me. 60 years have pasted & my mind still can't wrap around the facts of the Holocaust, that humans could inflict such pain & horror on other animals, let alone on other humans.

My main thought throughout the book was how incredibly lucky Blatt was. Repeatedly, throughout the book, in sections on every page, he chose left or right, up or down, go or stay, raise his hand or not, steal some bread or not, and every time he chose the right path. In each one of those cases, in every single case, if he had chosen wrong, he would have been dead. I'm not being melodramtic; Blatt illustrated over & over again that with his recreations of past events.

As always, I'm a little skeptic, but even if half of his choices are true, then my God, how did this person survive? How did anyone survive? As so many people have asked before, why did the Jews not fight back? I think Blatt in his autobiography/memoirs, explain this better then any book I've read before.

I bought this book as part of a book lot about the Holocaust at a field auction. ( )