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The extraordinary true story of a Jewish teenager who escaped Nazi Germany for the UK, joined the British Army and returned to his homeland in order to liberate his parents from a concentration camp.
A deeply moving account of courage, tenacity, and an against-all-odds reunion.
Four days after Germany's surrender in May 1945, a young British officer named Freddy Gray takes a Jeep and heads East from the Netherlands into Germany. But this is no ordinary English soldier. Freddy's real name is Manfred, and he is travelling across what remains of his former homeland with one objective: to rescue his parents from a concentration camp.
As a boy Manfred was forced to flee the Holocaust, leaving his parents behind. As soon as he could he signed up to fight, serving in an elite British unit made up of German native speakers and joining the legendary British "Three Troop" in the D-Day Normandy landings.
Now, seven years after escaping from Nazi Germany, Manfred begins a relentless hunt for his lost family. He begins by helping to liberate his hometown, where his former home has been taken over by Nazis and the basement repurposed as a torture chamber. Then he travels through streams of refugees, overcomes Soviet military roadblocks, and crosses no-man's land before reaching his ultimate destination: Theresienstadt, the concentration camp where his parents were last seen.
There, incredibly, Manfred discovered his parents still alive. I Will Come Back for You tells his remarkable story.
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About the Authors
Daniel Huhn, born in 1985, studied history and politics. He is the author of numerous films and radio features dealing primarily with historical topics, including the documentary Back to Borken and an Audible Original podcast about Manfred Gans' journey.
In 2016, he embarked on the route Manfred Gans had taken more than 70 years earlier with the descendants of the Gans family.
Rachel Stanyon has worked as a teacher and researcher in Germany and the UK, and is currently based in Australia, where she volunteers for the world literature journal Asymptote and works as a translator from German. She holds a master's in translation, and in 2016 won a place in the New Books in German Emerging Translators Programme.
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