{"product_id":"by-chance-alone","title":"By Chance Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER of CBC Canada Reads\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the RBC Taylor Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous “death march” in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTibor “Max” Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of 1944--five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family’s yearly Passover Seder--gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne day, Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured, he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician, Tadeusz Orzeszko, operated on him. Despite his significant injury, Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last twenty-two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781443448543, 1443448540\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Max Eisen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harper Collins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:none\"\u003e543 8543 48543 448543 540 8540 48540 448540\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Batner Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934225170520,"sku":"9781443448543","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/7564\/3992\/files\/9781443448543.jpg?v=1775053634","url":"https:\/\/batnerbookstore.com\/products\/by-chance-alone","provider":"Batner Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}