Journey to the Golden Door: A Survivor's Tale

By Jay Sommer

Riveting insightful reading for anyone interested in the calamity of the Holocaust a valuable contribution to the literature about that period in the tradition of the acclaimed Diary Of Anne Frank. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884001776
• ISBN13: 9780884001775
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Moving story, in the vein of Angela's Ashes

Sommer tells a very moving and realistic story about his experiences as a Jewish child and young man during the era of Hitler. His descriptions of the people he met along the way come alive as he tells the story, and the events leap off the page. His perspective is different from others I've read in that he comes from Hungary and most of his trials are outside of the camps, so the action and setting changes constantly. Like Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes, he tends to paint himself the hero or the pitiable one in the story, and that loses him a star. Definitely worth the read.