Table of Contents
Foreword Suzanne Bardgett ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Preface xvii
Part I Childhood
Chapter 1 The Golden Years 1
Chapter 2 Dark Clouds 19
Chapter 3 The End of Hope 35
Part II The Camps
Chapter 4 Holocaust Literature and Reality 53
Chapter 5 Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) 57
Chapter 6 Auschwitz-Birkenau 67
Chapter 7 Blechhammer 81
Chapter 8 The Longest Walk, The Coldest Train Journey 99
Chapter 9 Buchenwald 109
Part III The Return
Chapter 10 Prague 129
Chapter 11 Ústí nad Orlicí 133
Part IV England
Chapter 12 A Lancaster Bomber 145
Chapter 13 My Father 151
Chapter 14 Natural Philosophy 157
Appendix: Chronology 1942-45 167