This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing

1.

Childhood in Czechoslovakia --

2.

Summers on the Farm --

3.

Big Changes --

4.

Life under Hungarian Rule --

5.

Year of Birth and Death --

6.

Final Seder --

7.

Train --

8.

Arrival in Auschwitz II-Birkenau --

9.

Arbeit Macht Frei --

10.

Draining Swamps --

11.

Walking Ghosts --

12.

Piece of Bacon --

13.

Selections, July 1944 --

14.

Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz --

15.

Operating Room --

16.

Surgeries in Barrack 21 --

17.

Pot of Stew --

18.

Destruction of Crematorium 4 --

19.

Death March --

20.

Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation --

21.

Ebensee, After Liberation --

22.

From Ceske Budejovice to Moldava --

23.

Emotional and Physical Healing --

24.

Marienbad --

25.

Prague --

26.

Return to Kosice --

27.

Ebelsberg DP Camp --

28.

Canada