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In Search of My Father

The true life story of a young Jewish boy from Slovakia caught up in the tragedy of the Holocaust. After being liberated in Theresienstadt by the red army, six-year-old Paul Drexler struggles to come to terms with his father's mysterious disappearance. He migrates to Australia with his heartbroken mother and begins a new life, but memories of his father are never far from his mind. Fifty years later, Paul Drexler begins searching for his father, the man known as Eugen Drexler. His journey takes him from Australia to Slovakia, Germany, and other foreign lands to which he never thought he would ever return. His desperate search to unveil the circumstances surrounding his father's brutal killing in the last days of World War II finally comes to an end, with the most unexpected evidence uncovered. In Search of My Fatheris a testament to the bond between father and son—a bond that could not be broken by separation, death, or the passing of time.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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