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Liked It “This book is amazing and even more so because Leo Bretholz is still alive and speaking and talking on college campuses and lecture halls. He has the ability to hold them in his hands as he weaves out his story of flight, fear, sorrow, humility, bravery to his audience. I know because my adopted...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“This book is amazing and even more so because Leo Bretholz is still alive and speaking and talking on college campuses and lecture halls. He has the ability to hold them in his hands as he weaves out his story of flight, fear, sorrow, humility, bravery to his audience. I know because my adopted Mom had him come to my home town to speak at colleges and temples. She found him to be an intriguing man. In this day when many try to deny the Holocaust, his presence and the stories of his life are a testimony of a hunted man. A man chased across Europe for one reason. He was a Jew. In 1938, Leo was seventeen and watched Hitler enter Vienna to cheering crowds. Austrians embraced Hitler and by that fall Leo's mother sent him away to save his life. She did save it. She and his younger sisters died at the hands of the Nazi's. Leo ran and ran. He was arrested and escaped and even jumped from one of the trains designated to take thousands of Jews, Gypsies and others to their death in the camps. This is a gripping story that echoes what President Obama said in Germany. "We can not forget." Which is what my grandfather told me at age nine. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is anguished by the genocide which contunues on our planet.”
khabira wrote this review Wednesday, June 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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