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Frank, brutal and horrifying. * The Good Book Guide * Powerful, absorbing and - tragically - entirely truthful, Hollocaust survivor Sam Pivnik is a remarkable storyteller. -- Daniel Wittenberg * Ham & High * 'The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying...The fear seems real, and smells real'. * <i>Good Book Guide</i> * Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler's death camps have been fully exposed, we've heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven't. That's the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam's is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards. * <i>The Big Issue</i> * 'This vivid memoir'. * Peter Condradi, <i>Sunday Times</i> *

'Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler's death camps have been fully exposed, we've heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven't. That's the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam's is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards.' -- The Big Issue

'This vivid memoir'. -- Peter Condradi, Sunday Times 'Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler's death camps have been fully exposed, we've heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven't. That's the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam's is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards.' -- The Big Issue 'The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying...The fear seems real, and smells real'. -- Good Book Guide

'This vivid memoir'. - Peter Condradi, Sunday Times Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler's death camps have been fully exposed, we've heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven't. That's the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam's is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards. - The Big Issue 'The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying...The fear seems real, and smells real'. - Good Book Guide Powerful, absorbing and - tragically - entirely truthful, Hollocaust survivor Sam Pivnik is a remarkable storyteller. - Ham & High - Daniel Wittenberg Frank, brutal and horrifying. - The Good Book Guide 'This vivid memoir'. - Peter Condradi, Sunday Times Sixty-seven years after the end of the war, by which point the extent of Hitler's death camps have been fully exposed, we've heard it all before, read the book, seen the movie. Yet we haven't. That's the thing about human stories: each is unique. Sam's is remarkable. Not just the death camps, but his escape from them. And that he could build a life afterwards. - The Big Issue 'The tale is frank, brutal and horrifying...The fear seems real, and smells real'. - Good Book Guide

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Sam Pivnik was born on 1 September 1926 in Bedzin, in South-western Poland, near the border with Germany. In 1943 the family were sent to Auschwitz II/Birkenau where Sam's father and mother, his two sisters and his three younger brothers were murdered. He built a life as a respected art dealer in London after the war and now shares his memories with a wider public through lectures and talks. M J Trow who has worked with Sam Pivnik on Ultimate Survivor, is the author of many books on historical subjects of all eras, including Let Him Have It, Chris, Open Skies, Closed Minds, and Hess the British Conspiracy. He studied military history at King's College, London and now broadcasts and lectures regularly throughout the world.

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