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The survivor : how I survived six concentration camps and became a Nazi hunter Book
Book | First Canadian edition. | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Ontario : [2023]

  • 2 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Crystal Ridge BIO LEWKO 2023 Biographies Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Thorold 940.53 LEWKO Nonfiction Copy hold / Volume hold Canceled Transit
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"An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone. The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man's endurance and his determination to not only survive the Holocaust but to bring to justice those who perpetrated great crimes against humanity. This is one of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust. Josef Lewkowicz was the only one left alive in his extended family of 150. The survivor of six concentration camps, he became a Nazi hunter, responsible for bringing to justice his greatest tormentor, the Butcher of Plaszow, as well as the murderous SS camp Kommandant Amon Goeth. Working as part of a covert operation, he also helped to rescue hundreds of orphaned children who had been hidden by doomed parents during the ghetto clearances in Poland. Many of these children were able to begin new lives in Israel. Lewkowicz operated as a diamond dealer in South America, befriended leading Israeli politicians like Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and met Argentine dictator Juan Peron. He raised his family in Montreal. He is now ninety-six years old and lives in Jerusalem. This book, his testimony, captures the spirit, the soul, the neshama of the survivor."--
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  • ISBN: 9781443468824
  • Physical Description: xiii, 287 pages ; 23 cmprint
  • Edition: First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2023]

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