In Search of My Father: The Journey of a Holocaust Child Survivor

the journey of a child Holocaust survivor

Plot

This is the true life story of a young Jewish boy from Slovakia caught up in the tragedy of the Holocaust. After being liberated in Theresienstadt by the red army, six-year-old Paul Drexler struggles to come to terms with his fathers mysterious disappearance. He migrates to Australia with his heartbroken mother and begins a new life, but memories of his father are never far from his mind. Fifty years later, Paul Drexler begins searching for his father, the man known as Eugen Drexler. His journey takes him from Australia to Slovakia, Germany and other foreign lands that he never thought he would ever return to. His desperate search to unveil the circumstances surrounding his fathers brutal killing in the last days of World War II finally comes to an end, with the most unexpected evidence uncovered. Sparely written, moving and painfully real, this memoir is a testament to the bond between father and son -- a bond that could not be broken by separation, death or the passing of time.