When the German army captured Lwow in 1941, Poland's third largest city contained a vibrant jewish community of 160,000 people. Because the Final Solution began there so early, no other Jewish community of similar size came so close to complete eradication, and no other aspect of the Holocaust is as poorly recorded. Samuel Drix, a respected Lwow doctor survived, but lost every member of his large family and almost all his friends. He endured nearly a year in the Janowska concentration camp, helping fellow prisoners stay alive. Then he escaped - miraculously - and hid with a Polish farm couple until the Red Army arrived. Nazi anti-semitism was swapped for the Russian kind. A broken man, he contemplated suicide until a woman's love gave him renewed hope. He was to witness at the war crimes trials, where killers were brought to justice.

Witness a Holocaust Memoir

Drix, Samuel

Biographies & Memoirs

Fount/HarperCollins

The author describes the Nazi occupation, recounts the loss of his family, and shares his experiences at the Janowska concentration camp

Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust a Memoir

Historical

Potomac Books Inc.

When the German Army captured Lwów, Poland, in 1941, the city contained a vibrant Jewish community of 160,000 people. By 1945, all but a few hundred were dead. Witness to Annihilation is the book that Samuel Drix vowed he would write. Drix endured nearly a year in the Janowska concentration camp, escaped and hid from the Nazis, was liberated by the Red Army, and eventually fled from behind the Iron Curtain to America. This rare Holocaust memoir by a caring physician will both horrify and inspire.

Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust

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Witness a Holocaust Memoir

Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust a Memoir

Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust