A Tailor in Auschwitz

David van Turnhout , Dirk Verhofstadt , Trans. Kristien De Wulf et al

New Hardback Illustrated

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On being sent to Auschwitz, Ide Leib Kartuz was set to work repairing camp clothing and the uniforms of the SS guards, before being marched to Mauthausen. In this volume his grandson recalls how he traced his ancestor’s experiences, from the increasing restrictions placed on Jewish people before the war, through the atrocities of the Holocaust, to the battle for recognition as a Belgian citizen.

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