Country Australia Publisher JoJo Publishing Media type Print (Softcover) Originally published 2010 Page count 221 | Language English Publication date 2010 Pages 221 Genre Autobiography | |
History book review in search of my father the journey of a holocaust child survivor by paul dr
In Search of My Father: The Journey of a Child Holocaust Survivor is a 2010 book by a Holocaust survivor Paul Drexler. The book chronicles the author's research about his father's death during a British bombardment days before German capitulation.
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Summary
In 1944, Drexler and his family were taken by the Gestapo to a labor camp in Sereď. The family was separated a few months later when Drexler and his mother were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Drexler never saw his father, Eugen again. The family had evidence that Eugen died on 3 May 1945 in a death certificate, but knew no details. They soon immigrated to Australia.
In the mid 1990s, Drexler was presenting his story to Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation. It was during this recounting of events that Drexler realized he wanted to research and discover what happened to his father. His research took him throughout Europe, where he discovered that Eugen was killed in the Bay of Lübeck only a couple days before Germany surrendered.
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald praised In Search of My Father as "full of powerful moments, told simply, with disturbing openness". A review in the The Australian illustrates the book's "painful reminder that when nations go to war, it is invariably the innocent who suffer most".