Boy 30529: A Memoir
Author: Weinberg,Felix
ISBN: 9781781683002
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Apr 2014
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
'Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march'. These were coined later, by outsiders.'
Boy 30529 tells the story of a boy who at the age of twelve lost everything- hope, family, and even his own identity. As Nazi persecutions grew in intensity, young Felix's father went to England to obtain travel papers to allow the family to emigrate from Czechoslovakia. But they never made it out of Prague. Felix spent the next three years in a series of concentration camps- Terezin, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald-and survived the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945.
'In the face of genocide on any people, anywhere at any time, the book is the ultimate response- that we exist and have the right to exist. I wasn't only moved by it. I was strengthened by it' Michael Rosen, author, poet
'All those who care about the proper documenting of this horrendous era must be grateful to Felix Weinberg for giving us this insightful and ultimately uplifting account' Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum
'Felix Weinberg's memoir stands out from other Holocaust memoirs in its accomplished style, its powers of exact recollection and depiction and in its dry humour.' Professor Charmian Brinson, Author of The Strange Case of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm
ISBN: 9781781683002
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Apr 2014
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
'Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march'. These were coined later, by outsiders.'
Boy 30529 tells the story of a boy who at the age of twelve lost everything- hope, family, and even his own identity. As Nazi persecutions grew in intensity, young Felix's father went to England to obtain travel papers to allow the family to emigrate from Czechoslovakia. But they never made it out of Prague. Felix spent the next three years in a series of concentration camps- Terezin, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald-and survived the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945.
'In the face of genocide on any people, anywhere at any time, the book is the ultimate response- that we exist and have the right to exist. I wasn't only moved by it. I was strengthened by it' Michael Rosen, author, poet
'All those who care about the proper documenting of this horrendous era must be grateful to Felix Weinberg for giving us this insightful and ultimately uplifting account' Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum
'Felix Weinberg's memoir stands out from other Holocaust memoirs in its accomplished style, its powers of exact recollection and depiction and in its dry humour.' Professor Charmian Brinson, Author of The Strange Case of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm
