{"product_id":"the-boy-who-followed-his-father-into-auschwitz-a-true-story-of-family-and-survival-isbn-9780063019317","title":"The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of the bond between a father and son.”—Heather Morris, author of #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Tattooist of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe #1 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller—a remarkable work of World War II nonfiction about the heroic and unbreakable bond between a father and son that is as inspirational as \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Tattooist of Auschwitz \u003c\/i\u003eand as mesmerizing as \u003ci\u003eThe Choice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere there is family, there is hope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholster from Vienna, and his sixteen-year-old son Fritz are arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Germany. Imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, they miraculously survive the Nazis’ murderous brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Gustav learns he is being sent to Auschwitz—and certain death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Fritz, letting his father go is unthinkable. Desperate to remain together, Fritz makes an incredible choice: he insists he must go too. To the Nazis, one death camp is the same as another, and so the boy is allowed to follow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the six years of horror they witness and immeasurable suffering they endure as victims of the camps, one constant keeps them alive: their love and hope for the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unforgettable Holocaust true story, based on the secret diary that Gustav kept as well as meticulous archival research and interviews with members of the Kleinmann family, including Fritz’s younger brother Kurt, sent to the United States at age eleven to escape the war, \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e is Gustav and Fritz’s story—an extraordinary and inspirational story of courage, loyalty, survival, and love that is unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut how does a father keep his son from despair, and how does a son keep his father from death, in the most terrifying place on Earth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFather and Son Survival Story:\u003c\/b\u003e Follows Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann, a Viennese upholsterer and his teenage son, through six years of horror in Nazi concentration camps from Buchenwald to Auschwitz.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Unbreakable Bond:\u003c\/b\u003e When Gustav is sent to certain death at Auschwitz, Fritz makes an unthinkable choice: to go with him, refusing to let his father die alone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBased on a Secret Diary:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn from the hidden journal Gustav kept throughout his imprisonment, this is a raw, immediate, and unforgettable first-hand account of the Holocaust.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAgainst All Odds:\u003c\/b\u003e Witness the acts of resistance, moments of kindness, and the sheer force of will that kept a father and son together from their arrest in 1939 to their final liberation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Today, when studies are showing many Americans know little about the Holocaust, this will serve as a compelling remedy: a personal and universal account of brutality at its worst and of family devotion at its best.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An extraordinary tale of endurance and filial love. It is a miraculous story with many twists and Dronfield tells it well in an energetic and lively style.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The horrors of the Holocaust are effectively conveyed on a human scale in this gripping account.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Heart-wrenching yet compelling. . . . Beautifully written, deeply poignant in its detail, it is a necessary testament today in the fight against Holocaust denial.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Fry, author of The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Center\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Astonishing. . . . Brilliantly researched and written with searing clarity.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A deeply humane account. 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