Author:
Oster, Henry H., 1928-2019, author.
Edition Statement:First U.S. trade edition.
ImprintNew York : Grand Central, 2023.
Descriptionxii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note:"Previously published under the title The kindness of the hangman by Higgins Bay Press in 2014"--Title page verso.
Note:A German boy -- A nation in search of a leader -- Jews in Germany -- The rise of the Nazis -- Under pressure -- A night to remember. A night to forget. -- "This is a mistake!" -- Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. -- The precious shrapnel -- Report for deportation -- One room. Twenty-one people. -- The calculus of soup -- The ghetto runner -- The sounds in the night -- Fatherless child -- The kindness of the hangman -- The secret in the attic -- The train -- A raised hand. A tattooed arm. -- To the stables -- Mutti, Olga and Barbarossa -- The foal in the field -- Barbarossa -- In the line of fire -- A beating, a tomato and a loaf of bread -- The gauntlet and the one-eyed Nazi -- Something's happening here -- The march -- Under attack -- Buchenwald -- Whispers in the night -- Lying with the dead -- A tank with the Star of David -- Behind the wire at Buchenwald -- The SS on the run -- The well, the sick and the dying -- Black and white -- The first breakfast -- Fear of freedom -- The long road -- The good Germans of Weimar -- Burying the dead -- Boys in the barracks -- One more train ride -- The ride back to life -- Welcome to the asylum -- Somebody from somewhere -- What freedom looks like -- The good ship Exodus -- The man from America -- A free man in Paris -- To the promised land -- The woman in the harbor -- Home at last -- Welcome to Westwood -- Sorry. Too Jewish. -- Return to Germany.
Note:"Henry Oster was just five years old when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. He was the last survivor of the more than two thousand Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo and deported from Cologne. Assigned to back-breaking labor in the Auschwitz horse-breeding stables, Henry clung to the belief that if he made himself hard to replace, he might stay alive. Through it all, Henry found the strength to survive and was one of only twenty-three to emerge alive from the concentration camp after the war. How did one starving boy, alone and forgotten, survive this ultimate hell on earth? The Stable Boy of Auschwitz is the heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and unforgettable true story that will destroy your faith in humanity... and then build it back up again." -- Back cover.
