The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story Of Hope And Survival
By HarperCollins - Thomas Geve (Paperback)

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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz presents a rare living testimony through the eyes of a child who had the unique ability to observe & remember every detail around him & chose to document it all. Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Thomas was separated from his mother & left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I, at the age of 13. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was subjected to, & forced to observe first-h&, the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps. On his eventual release Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings. Infamous scenarios synonymous with this dark period of history were portrayed in poignant but simplistic detail with extraordinary accuracy. Despite the unspeakable events he experienced, Thomas decided to bec...