By Chance Alone

<strong>An award-winning internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel's </strong><strong><em>Night</em></strong><strong> and Primo Levi's </strong><strong><em>Survival in Auschwitz</em></strong> <p/>In the spring of 1944 gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor Max Eisen and his family from their home brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. <p/>More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies <em>By Chance Alone</em> details Eisen's story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I the infamous death march in January 1945 the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen's journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.