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Jack J. Hersch at the Jewish Book Festival
November 7, 2019 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Free
Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. After ten months, Dave was forced to join a death march to Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, over thirty miles away. Miraculously, Dave escaped, but was quickly recaptured and put on another death march a few days later, where he achieved the impossible: he escaped again. Dave often told his son Jack his incredible story of survival, but Jack’s discovery of a photo of his father in 2007, years after Dave’s death, compels Jack to journey back to Mauthausen and to the death march routes. As Jack retraces his father’s footsteps, visiting the places he slaved and the intersections where he escaped, Jack not only learns much more about his father’s remarkable survival than he’d ever known, but he also learns about himself.
