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Title: Bread or Death

Subtitle: Memories of My Childhood During and After the Holocaust

Author: Milton Mendel Kleinberg

Narrator: Hershel Kleinberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-15

Publisher: Fifth Generation Books LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook is narrated by Milton Mendel Kleinberg's son, Hershel Kleinberg.

The war brought about scarcities of just about everything... except misery.

"Alle raise," (everybody out), the German soldiers screamed as they pounded on our door with the butts of their rifles. And thus began a 4,500-mile journey from Poland through Russia and Siberia and eventually to Uzbekistan in Central Asia, as the author's family used bribery and darkness of night to flee as the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939.

Young Mendel, from age four to 14, tells in vivid detail the wretched journey in cramped cattle cars through frigid Russia, the indignities of being forced labor, the shame of begging for bread just to survive, and death of those closest to him. The family's plight includes abandonment, hunger, and separation (and later remarkable twists of fate and reunion) quite unlike other Holocaust stories.

This coming-of-age Holocaust memoir is the author's personal account of how - through great sacrifices by his mother - he managed to survive the worst atrocities in human history and his uncertain days in a Polish Children's Home, scrabbling for fallen fruit, and surviving kidnapping and murder on the Black Road, and return to German Displaced Persons camps at war's end. But to what fate?

Originally written as a memoir just for his grandchildren, Milton Kleinberg gives a moving account of his family's hardships and eventual immigration with a lump-in-the-throat passage to America past the Statue of Liberty and into a land of opportunity tinged with bigotry yet with a promise to future generations.

This audiobook for young adults has been reviewed by the Institute for Holocaust Education and includes a glossary, a book club discussion guide, a timeline, and a Teacher's Guide.

Members Reviews:

Remembering so we will never forget

I had the distinct honor to assist with the editing of this Holocaust memoir. Mr. Kleinberg is a remarkable man who carries with him an unbelievable story of survival and resilience. He has chronicled his childhood interrupted at age 4 when the Nazis threw him and his family into the street of Pabianice, Poland, and thus began their tortuous flight through Russia. This story has a happy and surprising ending, but no one could ever be prepared to experience the horror this child endured that included murder, abandonment, kidnapping, death, profound hunger, and hardship. When this generation of child survivors is gone, these stories will be forever gone. Thanks to Mr. Kleinberg for remembering so none of us will ever forget.

I highly recommend this book!

What an amazing story! I am in awe of the things this author and his mother endured and survived. I have so much respect for people who are persecuted for their faith. The Holocaust was a horrible, horrible thing. While I was reading this book, much has been going on in the news about the persecution of Christians in Iraq. Persecution for one's race or beliefs is beyond understanding. There are no words for how terribly tragic it is. But hatred and evil always go hand-in-hand. We are blessed to live in America, the land of the free. We have never had to experience this kind of evil. With all our faults, we are still the greatest country in the world.