Because of Romek

Plot

This volume chronicles the events in the life of the author and the horrors of living in Nazi concentration camps. The author was born in 1926 and suffered Nazi persecution from 1939 to 1945, his teenage years. During the Holocaust, he witnessed the murder of his parents and six of his seven siblings. He was imprisoned in eight different concentration camps, including Auschwitz. In the mid-1960s, the German government contacted the author to testify against Nazi war criminals. Until then, he did not know that his older brother, Romek, whom the Nazis had tortured to death many years earlier, had been involved in a Polish Underground plot to avert Nazi Germany's ability to create an atomic bomb. When the author finally agreed to testify, he began to relive all the horrors of his experiences during the war: concentration camps, murders, tortures, starvation, and disease. When finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, he weighed a mere 72 pounds. This work fulfills the author's promise to his dead mother that he would survive and tell the world about the horrors committed against him and his family.