Author Nathan Shapell (1922 - 2007) was an American Holocaust survivor, real estate developer and philanthropist. He was 17 when the Germans occupied his hometown in Poland. After managing for months to outwit the Nazis in the Jewish ghettoes, he was finally taken to Auschwitz in the summer of 1943. He survived Auschwitz, death marches and two more concentration camps. At this point, the story he relates in Witness to the Truth begins, with Shapell leading a small group of surviving Jews out of the Russian-occupied zone of Germany, into the American zone (where he helped build housing for homeless Jews) and eventually to the U.S.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover third printing. Signed by the author Nathan Shapell. Dust jacket shows minor edge wear with a few nicks. Boards show top only, back edge bleeding onto paste-down, touching the adjacent angle of the dust jacket. Pages unmarked and clean. Binding firm. (386 pages) Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 022738
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NYC: David Mckay, 1974. 1st edition, 32nd printing, NF/VG. Book has some wear to spine ends and a few ink smears on front end-paper. DJ wear to spine ends& corners, light edge wear, light color fad & two small marks on spine. Shapell (changed from Schapelski) was 23 at the end of WWII, and found himself homeless, and with his sister the only living relative (they survived Auschwitz), managed to get to Germany. Here they became part of the thousands of displaced persons who were hated by the Germans and mostly ignored by the American military presence. They spent many years helping these displaced thousands rebuild their lives, built a school, an orphanage for Jewish children and helped the American authorities deal with this tremendous tragedy. A mensh (both of them) of the highest degree. Wonderful memoir, great read. 386 pp. PK/GB. Seller Inventory # 007090