A heart-wrenching true story of one young man's journey into, through, and out of the Holocaust.
Some people have a knack for survival, for getting out of jams. Twelve-year-old David Karmi found himself face to face with the ultimate test. With his homeland consumed by fear, David entered a world of human slaughter. Whole towns were vaporized. Cities obliterated in firestorms. More than fifty million people died--twelve million either gassed, shot, hanged, worked to death or subjected to biological experiments. David survived.
Separated from his parents and siblings, David Karmi was hurled into a nightmare of death camps, forced marches, sickness, violence and depravity. On his own, through the tortuous months that followed, he endured. He is a survivor of Auschwitz, Dachau, and the Warsaw Ghetto. He enured forced marches, starvation, and even persecution after the Allies freed him from the camps. This is a story of strength, courage, some luck - and an amazing man, told in his own words. It is the biography of a survivor.
PRAISE FOR SURVIVOR's GAME:
"[Karmi's debut forgoes] the despair employed by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, instead echoing the optimism of Anne Frank...Eminently readable and largely remarkable."
--Kirkus Reviews
"'Some people have a knack for survival, for getting out of jams.' Karmi is one of those, and he faces the ultimate test as a young teen in Nazi-occupied Europe as he and his family are deported to Auschwitz."
--Publishers Weekly
"Survivor's Game reads not so much like a memoir but a novel, replete with tension, drama, and twists and turns. Recommended."
--Midwest Book Review
"This is a story we all need to know...the cost of forgetting is too high."
--New York Times best-selling author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
