Orenstein’s searing account of his experience as a young man in Germany, Russia, and ultimately, in a concentration camp, has been called, “[a]n adventure…almost novelesque in the extraordinary succession of miracles which enable the young man to remain among the living so as to eventually tell his story forty years later with Voltaire-esque ferocity and often sheer and invigorating joy.”–Claude Lanzmann

Orenstein’s ingenuity and indefatigable vitality in the face of the horrors of the Holocaust enabled him to save himself and his family from execution by playing a role in the greatest trick ever pulled on the Nazis. Orenstein and his brothers were part of a fake Commando formed by German SS officers who wanted to avoid fighting at the Russian front. The new edition of I Shall Live contains new evidence about this false Commando-letters signed to and from Himmler himself.

About: Henry Orenstein

Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825305979)

History/ Autobiography

336 pages

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