Getting Out Alive (Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs) - Softcover

Dick, Tommy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897470010 ISBN 13: 9781897470015

Publisher: Azrieli Fndtn, 2008

Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick is killed, only to resurface. Born into a Hungarian family who had converted from Judaism, Tommy soon finds out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he's still a Jew, still a target for extermination. On the run and in disguise, Tommy is chased by death as much as he is by luck. A vivid and gripping account of how the courageous acts of others, unshakeable friendships and Tommy's own extraordinary quick-wit conspired to save the life of an adventurous and determined young man in the cruelest of times.

About this title

About the Author:

Tommy Dick was born in 1925 in Budapest, Hungary. Following the Soviet liberation of Hungary in 1945, he made his way to a Displaced Persons camp in Austria and then, in 1948, immigrated to Canada. He worked as a labourer on a hydroelectric dam in Stewartville, near Ottawa, after which he lived in Montreal for three years. He moved west, settling in Calgary, where he started his own business manufacturing aluminum windows. He met and married Lilian in 1954 and they had two daughters. At the age of thirty-six, Tommy enrolled in law school and was called to the bar in 1967 at the age of forty-two. He practiced law in Calgary for thirty years. Tommy Dick passed away in 1999.

From the Inside Flap:

Jewish, hiding, Nazi, WWII, concentration camp, Europe

About this edition

• Publisher: Azrieli Fndtn
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1897470010
• ISBN 13: 9781897470015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68