David Herman, David’s Story (2016)

A young man endures five Nazi concentration camps but survives against the odds and goes on to build a successful new life in Britain with ‘The Boys’. Told through the eyes of young David, this autobiography is initially set in Munkacs in pre-war Czechoslovakia, the “little Jerusalem” of eastern Europe. His childhood is brought to an abrupt end as the Nazis take control of the town. He must rely on his most basic instincts to survive when he is transported to Auschwitz.

Forced as a slave labourer to build railways for the Nazi war effort, Herman is already starving when he is injured in an air raid. Struggling to go on, he is unexpectedly reunited with his brother. Together they help each other to survive a death march and are liberated at Theresienstadt. From an orphanage in Prague, Herman joined the third group of the Boys and began a new life in England.