The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers
(Book)

Adaptation of the adult narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival published in New York by Harper in 2020.

Adult version originally published, in slightly different form, as The Stone Crusher in 2018 by Chicago Review Press.

Includes "What happened after" section with family photographs, timeline of events, author's note to parents and teachers, and glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-373).

In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz -- a certain death sentence -- Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.

Ages 10 and up.,Harper.