Boy 30529 - Felix Jiri Weinberg

"Anyone who survived the exterminations
camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of
the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the
majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have
understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march.' These were coined
later, by outsiders."
In 1939 twelve-year-old Felix Weinberg
fell into the hands of the Nazis. Imprisoned for most of his teenage
life, Felix survived five concentration camps, including Terezin,
Auschwitz, and Birkenau, barely surviving the Death March from
Blechhammer in 1945. After losing his mother and brother in the camps,
he was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at seventeen with
his father in Britain, where they built a new life together.

Boy 30529 is an extraordinary memoir of the Holocaust, as well as a moving meditation on the nature of memory.