Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora

by Brian Brock and Pierre Berg

In 1943, eighteen year old Pierre Berg picked the wrong time to visit a friend's house--at the same time as the Gestapo. He was thrown into the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. But through a mixture of savvy and chance, he man-aged to survive...and ultimately got out alive. "As far as I'm concerned," says Berg, "it was all shithouse luck, which is to say--inelegantly--that I kept landing on the right side of the randomness of life." Such begins...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814412998
• ISBN13: 9780814412992
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher