Journey Through the Inferno

by Adam Boren

In his memoirs, Boren recounts fleeing east Nazi-occupied Warsaw as an adolescent, only to fall into German hands along with his father and brother. Miraculously, he slipped off unnoticed as they were being hanged and made his way back to Warsaw. He was smuggled into the ghetto and participated in the uprising before being captured. Deported to the concentration camp of Majdanek, he volunteered for work at Auschwitz III, later being send to Sachsenahusen and finally on a long death march. Introduction by Menachem Rosensaft

200 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Journey Through the Inferno was written by my wife's Great Uncle. So basically, she forced me to read it. I begrudgingly opened it up, prepared for another history lesson about the horrors of the holocaust. Instead, I found a moving and tragic adventure tale. It's weird to call a holocaust story an adventure tale, but as Boren takes the reader into pre-war Poland, the advance of the Nazis, his flight from terror and eventual return to the Warsaw ghetto, the ghetto uprising, and ultimately, the concentration camps, I couldn't help but marvel at his unbelievable tale of survival. One gets the feeling that if his life was lived 1,000 times, he would've died in the war 997 times. Most of his family does. While reading the book, I kept being astonished by the fact that yes, this actually happened. It's not like I wasn't aware of that - my own family lived (and died) through the holocaust. But reading a first hand account was the type of reminder I didn't ask for but am very glad I received. The upshot of such reminders is that one realizes how very, very good we have it now.

[Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

A heart breraking story about a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust who watched his family members die, but managed to survive through two million man marches and three concentration camps. Very intense!!