By Bread Alone - The Story of A-4685

Mermestein's haunting memoir chronicles his Czech family's descent into Nazi concentration camps, from which he was the only member of his immediate family to survive. He describes his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald as a boy of 17. In 1981 Mel filed a lawsuit for over $17 million against the Institute for Historical Review, an organization of Holocaust deniers...