I Only Wanted to Live

audiobook (Unabridged) A WW2 Young Jewish Boy Holocaust Survival True Story

By Henry West

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Three large-scale deportations. A verdict of death. One extraordinary tale of endurance.

At the tender age of six, Leosz's world was irrevocably transformed.

The eruption of World War II in 1939 plunged the young boy into the maelstrom of the Holocaust.

Across six harrowing years, Leosz endured and observed horrors beyond comprehension: endless crammed trains destined for extermination camps, scavenging as an orphaned child on the streets of Nazi-occupied Poland, evading brutal persecutors, and toiling in slave labor under famine and the ever-present shadow of execution.

His only shield was an unyielding resolve to persist.

This is the astonishing and uplifting account of a young Jewish boy who defied every layer of torment by fiercely grasping onto existence.

I Only Wanted to Live