A strong choice for readers seeking personal Holocaust accounts of camp life, endurance, and survival.
Buttons in My Soup
Biographies & Memoirs · World War 2
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At fifteen, Moshe-Yankel Zisovitch faced selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where survival meant learning the camps' rules and finding food wherever he could, even if it was only "button soup." His firsthand account follows his experiences at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and beyond, including the life he rebuilt after the Holocaust. A strong choice for readers seeking personal Holocaust accounts of camp life, endurance, and survival.
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About the book
In the camps, hunger is the only true constant. But there are worse things than hunger in Auschwitz.
Moshe-Yankel Zisovitch was only fifteen years old when he faced the selection at the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But passing those gates was only the first step on his road to survival. At Auschwitz, young Moshe learned that if he wants to live, he must learn the rules of the camps: do not look the kapos in the eye; stand at attention when called; keep your head down; and be grateful for every scrap of food you can find—even if it is only ‘button soup’ made from the scraps found in the freight trains constantly arriving at Auschwitz, bringing more Jews to be sent to the gas chambers…
But Moshe would not let it be his fate.
From Auschwitz to Buchenwald and beyond, Buttons in My Soup is an inspiring, victorious biography written by the late Holocaust survivor Moshe Zistovitch. A testament of determination and endurance, it honestly and discerningly portrays the life that ceased to exist—and the life that was rebuilt from the ashes.
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