By Chance Alone by Max Eisen

Max Eisen was only 15 when he and his family were rounded up and taken to Auschwitz in 1944.  In this book, Eisen shares the horror and inhumanity his family and millions of other Jews suffered.  Eisen worked in the concentration camp's hospital, and provides details and information I have never read in other books.  Eisen also reveals the difficulties and continued mistreatment Jews faced even after they were liberated.  Eisen made a promise to his father that he would tell the world about their experiences, and he keeps this promise through the speeches he gives all over the world, and by writing this book.

I am in awe of Max Eisen's resiliency and courage. His writing made me feel like I was there, seeing things through his eyes.  Racism and prejudice is on the rise in today's world, and, like Max Eisen, I wish everyone would read books like this so they learn or remember, and the horrors of the past will never be repeated.