The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Presents letters written to Lieutenant David Falvey from a fourth grade class while he was stationed in Iraq, and includes his answers to the students on his duties, life in the military, and himself.

"Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi is widely considered to be one of the top classic books of all time. It is a work of witness written in narrative form by the author Primo Levi. Survival In Auschwitz was influenced by Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during World War 2 and it seeks to consider the human condition in all its extremes. This book is often required reading for many courses and curriculums throughout...

The author, a physician, started climbing mountains to fight depression, and, lost in a blizzard on Everest, he was in a deep hypothermic coma, saved by a rescue orchestrated by his estranged wife Peach.

Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal Family-father, mother, Marion and her brother Albert- were trapped in Nazi German. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthal's were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps. Their story is one of the horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive.