It was a classic growing up in my parents library.

I bought it in french.

He was a ww2 auswitz survivor who became quite succesful later when freed but not before he lost his whole family to a fire in his residence- his wife and four kids died. Yes, even after the aushwitz nightmare as a kid himself.

He lost every single one of his loved ones to WW2 and then in the later fire.

The most abominable aushwitz story of later survivors writers I ever read is Viktor Frankl. His later writings are very very deep.  He skipped taking his wife and kid to USA just before WW2 as he had a visa to go work there, because he did not want to leave his parents and saw a line in the book he opened for guidance which said 'honor thy mother and father'. They were jewish in europe, germany or poland, I forget, and quickly made prisoners. Everyone died but Viktor. His story is my warning tale to myself about following our intuition and reading signs in our lives. He was grossly misinformed by his intuition. He would have saved his wife , his kid and himself if he had used his american visa to start a new life just as the war was breaking. Totally misinformed though he believed deeply in God's guidance. I find that a cold shower to myself, who say the wildest and do wild things always loving though, because I think I find signs in my life and guidance divine. It apears that God can very much fool us. And I dont know what to do with this information.