Auf eigenen Spuren : aus Mährisch-Ostrau durch Theresienstadt, Auschwitz I, Mauthausen, Gusen III über Paris nach Israel : jüdische Schicksale aus der Tschechoslowakei

Memoirs of a Czech Jew, born in 1921 as Peter Eisenberg into a well-established middle class family in Ostrava. Erben, who received his high-school degree in Brunn in 1940, was deported to Theresienstadt with his mother in 1942. In October 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz and in January 1945 he was transported, via Mauthausen, to the Gusen III labor camp. He was liberated in May 1945 by the U.S. army. He lost 25 relatives in the Holocaust. His younger brother had emigrated to Palestine in 1939 and his father died in 1941 of illness; he later learned that his mother had been deported to Auschwitz and murdered several weeks after he was sent there. After the war Erben lived in Prague, then escaped from the communist regime to Paris, and in 1949 emigrated to Israel with his wife. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-133). 150 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm