Sender Riseman, To Hell and Back (2021)

This is the story that Sender Riseman typed up for his grandchildren, word for word, unedited. There are no grandiose statements in this book and no revolutionary ideas. This is simply the story of an ordinary man who found himself in hell and managed to come back. Anything you’ve heard about the Holocaust, he experienced. The Lodz Ghetto, attempting to hide, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Death Marches and finally freedom. Sender Riseman is one of ‘The Boys’ – a group of Holocaust survivors made famous by the Martin Gilbert book of the same name. ‘The Boys’ got their title because after the Second World War, United Kingdom offered to take children refugees from the camps. Only 732 could be found. He died in March 2016 at the age of 89 years old in London, UK after successfully building up a Jewish Orthodox family and lifestyle and merited to see a new generation with many grandchildren and all the family remembering his legacy.