Buttons in my soup: Holocaust survivor story (True WW2 Surviving Memoir)

***GOLD MEDAL WINNER for Best Historical Biographies in the Global Book Awards 2024*** "Buttons in my soup" is the story of a boy, Moshe-Yankel Zisovitch, who survived the Holocaust. This is without a doubt one of the most fascinating testimonies of that dark period, thanks to the author's ability not only to recount what he endured, but also to reflect on his feelings back then, in the camps. Existential difficulties preceded the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, yet nothing could have been worse than the extermination camps. Moshe was 15 years old when he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, yet he passed the selection and survived. The Nazis sent the occupants of his barrack to their death, while he managed to slip out of their hands, and survived. He was sent to Buchenwald, worked in hard labor in the quarry, and survived. By joining a new work group, on the spur of the moment, he arrived