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Scheisshaus Luck by Pierre Berg & Brian Brock Book Summary
In 1943, eighteen year old Pierre Berg picked the wrong time to visit a friend’s house—at the same time as the Gestapo. He was thrown into the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. But through a mixture of savvy and chance, he managed to survive...and ultimately got out alive. “As far as I’m concerned,” says Berg, “it was all shithouse luck, which is to say—inelegantly—that I kept landing on the right side of the randomness of life.”
Such begins the first memoir of a French gentile Holocaust survivor published in the U.S. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, Scheisshaus Luck recounts Berg’s constant struggle in the camps, escaping death countless times while enduring inhumane conditions, exhaustive labor, and near starvation. The book takes readers through Berg’s time in Auschwitz, his hair’s breadth avoidance of Allied bombing raids, his harrowing “death march” out of Auschwitz to Dora, a slave labor camp (only to be placed in another forced labor camp manufacturing the Nazis’ V1 & V2 rockets), and his eventual daring escape in the middle of a pitched battle between Nazi and Red Army forces.
Utterly frank and tinged with irony, irreverence, and gallows humor, Scheisshaus Luck ranks in importance among the work of fellow survivors Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi. As we quickly approach the day when there will be no living eyewitnesses to the Nazi's “Final Solution,” Berg's memoir stands as a searing reminder of how the Holocaust affected us all.
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“A harrowing story….A worthy supplement to the reports of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.” -- Kirkus Reviews
His memoir is one of the few available in English by a gentile inmate of Auschwitz and an even rarer chronicle of experiences at the Dora plant. His insight into the workings of the Auschwitz black-market system and the relationship of the Kapos (camp trustees) to political and religious prisoners helps illuminate the corrupting effect of Nazi brutality on prisoners. Berg's personal journey—from the emotional upheaval of being caught in a German sweep in Nice to the gradual deadening of his emotions as he struggled to survive among the worst concentration camps—is compelling reading…. Highly recommended.” -- Library Journal
“It is the melding of the merry and the ghastly that sets this one apart from so many of the other Holocaust books I’ve come across. Mixed with the brutal working conditions, the random acts of violence, the routine beatings, the casual murders… there come moments of wonder, even beauty.” -- Ralph Magazine
“As you turn every page, you’ll find yourself immersing into Pierre’s memory, as if he was telling the story only to you… probably the best gentile memoir ever written, making it a vital part of Holocaust literature, and a classic tale as well.” -- The Manila Times
"This is a fascinating story of survival against the worst of odds." -- JT News
Book Name | Scheisshaus Luck |
Genre | History |
Author | Pierre Berg & Brian Brock |
Published | 09 September 2011, Friday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 525.89 KB |
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Opened my eyes. Really enjoyed this book, a really interesting and good read. After going to Auschwitz-Birkenau myself earlier in the year, I thought that nothing would have more of an impact, but this book really opened my eyes. I strongly recommend this bad boy!
Excellent!. I visited Auschwitz last year and i have read numerous books on concentration camps. This is one of the best I have read. I simply could not put it down, amazed at the spirit of the author and the simplistic yet thorough way he describes the living hell he lived through. The author mentions at the end of this book that he was initially reluctant to publish his story once he had tasted freedom. I am so glad he did publish it. A must for people to read in order that we never forget the evil that was the nazi regime and a must for people to remember the endurance of the human spirit, a spirit easily seen in the author. Buy it! Frank, Wigan, UK
Pj. Excellent book, well worth a read. Couldn't recommend enough
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The Scheisshaus Luck book written by Pierre Berg & Brian Brock was published on 09 September 2011, Friday in the History category. A total of 205 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.
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