The Janowska Road: Survival in a Nazi Death Camp

The Janowska Road by Leon Weliczker Wells originally published in 1963 remains one of the most important accounts of Jewish life during the Holocaust. The book is the harrowing account of Wells experiences from his sixteenth to his twentieth year in Lvov Poland from 1941-1945. Most of that time was spent as a prisoner in the Janowska concentration camp.Wells would later testify that he was the only member of his family including his parents six siblings cousins and uncles numbering 76 in all to survive the Holocaust. He survived by becoming part of the Death Brigade at Janowska whose job it was to obliterate with bonfires and bone-crushers the evidence of the Third Reichs guilt: thousands upon thousands of human corpses. Following the war Wells emigrated to the United States. Leon Wells passed away on December 19 2009 at the age of 84.This new edition includes an Introduction by Steve W. Chadde maps and photographs of Lvov and the Janowska Camp.