Jeremy Dronfield

1939, i Wien, greps den judiske möbeltapetsören Gustav Kleinmann. Tillsammans med sin tonårige son Fritz skickades han till lägret Buchenwald i Tyskland där de tvingades att bygga klart det koncentrationsläger där de var fångna. När Gustav en dag sorterades ut för att transporteras till Auschwitz - en säker dödsdom - vägrade Fritz att lämna hans sida. Genom alla hemskheter och genom allt lidande var det kärleken dem emellan - far och son - som höll dem vid liv.
Under sex år avverkade de fem olika koncentrationsläger. Deras berättelse genomsyras, förutom av kärlek, av mod, lojalitet och en häpnadsväckande överlevnadsförmåga.

Denna bok baseras dels på den dagbok som Gustav Kleinmann skrev under tiden i lägren, dels på noggranna efterforskningar i arkiven samt på intervjuer som gjorts med Fritz bror Kurt och andra familjemedlemmar. Kurt Kleinmann har även skrivit förordet till boken.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz, a certain death sentence, Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.Based on Gustav's secret diary and meticulous archive research, this book tells his and Fritz's story for the first time - a story of courage and survival unparalleled in the history of the Holocaust.

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When everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you have left.

In 1938, the Nazis come to Vienna. They hate anyone who is different, especially Jewish people.

Fritz and Kurt''s family are Jewish, and that puts them in terrible danger.

Fritz, along with his father, is taken to a Nazi prison camp, a terrible place, full of fear. When his father is sent to a certain death, Fritz can''t face losing his beloved Papa. He chooses to go with him and fight for survival.

Meanwhile, Kurt must go on a frightening journey, all alone, to seek safety on the far side of the world.

In this extraordinary true story, Fritz and Kurt must face unimaginable hardships, and the two brothers wonder if they will ever return home . . .

A retelling of the Sunday Times bestselling The Boy Who Followed his Father into Auschwitz, a Daily Mail and Sunday Express book of the year:

''Shattering, astonishing'' Daily Mail
''Extraordinary'' Observer

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