{"product_id":"by-chance-alone-max-eisen-9781443469425","title":"By Chance Alone: The Young Readers' Edition: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe moving, award-winning Canada Reads book from Holocaust survivor Max Eisen, now adapted for young readers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTibor \"Max\" Eisen was born in Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He lived in a compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. Life was far from perfect, but it was relatively peaceful. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in the spring of 1944--the morning after the family's Passover Seder--officers forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They, and thousands of other Jewish people, were brought to a brickyard and later loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Fifteen-year-old Max lost his entire family, but he survived the selection process and went on to endure back-breaking slave labour and the infamous Death March in January 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMax eventually survived his painful ordeal. And he knew he had to keep the very last promise he made to his father: to tell the world what happened at Auschwitz. \u003cem\u003eBy Chance Alone\u003c\/em\u003e is the result of this promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Eisen, Kathy Kacer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1443469424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781443469425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Max Eisen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897574777087,"sku":"9781443469425","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cfc3bdbd-31e6-4853-b54c-a72d05ec568e.jpg?v=1721374246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/by-chance-alone-max-eisen-9781443469425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}