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By Bread Alone: The Story of A-4685

by Mel Mermelstein · 1979

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The true story of Mel Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. Mel is the only member of his immediate family to have survived. His mother, father, two sisters and a brother perished in those infamous death camps. Mel vividly describes that agonizing period of personal suffering and sorrow which began for him in April of 1944 when he was just a boy of seventeen.

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