Contents

1. Dedication
3. Author’s Note
4. Maps
5. Prologue
6. 1.     Childhood in Czechoslovakia
7. 2.     Summers on the Farm
8. 3.     Big Changes
9. 4.     Life under Hungarian Rule
10. 5.     A Year of Death and Birth
11. 6.     The Final Seder
12. 7.     The Train
13. 8.     Arrival in Auschwitz II–Birkenau
14. 9.     Arbeit Macht Frei
15. 10.   Draining Swamps
16. 11.   Walking Ghosts
17. 12.   A Piece of Bacon
18. 13.   Selections, July 1944
19. 14.   Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz
20. 15.   The Operating Room
21. 16.   Surgeries in Barrack 21
22. 17.   A Pot of Stew
23. 18.   The Destruction of Crematorium 4
24. 19.   Death March
25. 20.   Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation
26. 21.   Ebensee, After Liberation
27. 22.   From České Budějovice to Moldava
28. 23.   Emotional and Physical Healing
29. 24.   Marienbad
30. 25.   Prague
31. 26.   Return to Košice
32. 27.   Ebelsberg DP Camp
33. 28.   Canada
34. Epilogue
35. Afterword
36. Acknowledgments
37. Appendix
38. Postscript
39. A Note on the Author
40. About the Author
41. Praise
42. Copyright
43. About the Publisher