With his very personal memoirs Karl Littner - a Jewish boy from Auschwitz-Zasole - gives
insight into Jewish life and anti-Semitism in his hometown Oswiecim - Oshpitzin - Auschwitz
Poland before the Second World War. Along with his odyssey he gives details about some not so
well known German forced labor camps like ZAL Raupenau-Kotzenau Hermannsdorf Gross Masselwitz
or Grünberg which he passed through in the years 1941 to 1943 via Transfer Camp Sosnowitz
(Sosnowiec). He offers his very personal experiences about the difficult life and the
systematic terror of the SS and its helpers against Jewish families in Ghetto Sosnowitz Srodula
before he managed to survive Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and Gross-Rosen-Fünfteichen
by being sent to Concentration Camp Mauthausen-Gusen II where he was near his end in the huge
underground aircraft plant "Bergkristall"at St. Georgen Gusen. Although his new life began with
the liberation from Nazi terror in Concentration Camp Gusen II Karl Littner describes also the
difficult way back into ordinary life. His path to success led him with his German wife Miriam
via Straubing and Tel Aviv to Chicago and finally Los Angeles.
