Pierre Berg (1) (1925–)
Autor(a) de Scheisshaus Luck
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-09-26
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- France (birth)
- Local de nascimento
- Nice, France
- Locais de residência
- Nice, France
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - Ocupação
- machinist
theater usher
memoirist - Pequena biografia
- Pierre Berg was born in Nice, France. He was a teenager preoccupied with fishing, girls and politics when World War II began. In 1943, at age 19, he was arrested by the French militia and the Gestapo for being found in the home of a friend with a forbidden short-wave radio. He was deported as a political prisoner via the Drancy transit camp to Auschwitz. A year later, he was sent to the Dora concentration camp in Germany, where he assembled rockets as a slave laborer of IG Farben. One day, he overheard Nazi officials discussing a plan to gas the prisoners, except the electricians; his fluency in German helped him save both his own and his brother’s lives by claiming they were both electricians. As the Red Army approached from the east near the end of the war, the Dora prisoners were sent on a death march into German territory. Berg and four other prisoners escaped and hid in a swamp until being liberated by the Russians.
After the war, he recuperated for a time in the village of Wustrow, Germany, before making his way home to France and being reunited with his brother and parents. In 1947, the family moved to the USA, settling in California. His memoir Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora, was published in 2007.
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- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 142
- Popularidade
- #144,865
- Avaliação
- 4.5
- Resenhas
- 22
- ISBNs
- 32
- Idiomas
- 5