8th April, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA RELEASE
For more information, please contact publicist - LIZ COPPING
T: 03 9699 1041
M: 0400 699 104
E:
lizcopping@bigpond.com
In Search Of My Father: the journey of a
child Holocaust survivor
author Paul Drexler
In 1945, Paul Drexler was a painfully thin, half-starved seven-year-old when
released from a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. His mother and
grandmother also became survivors on that spring day in May. But Paul’s father,
Eugen, never came home.
In Search of My Father is a poignant, evocative account of one man’s journey as he
returned to countries he never thought he’d see again, in a desperate search to
unveil the circumstances surrounding his father’s brutal killing just days before the
end of World War 11.
Paul’s journey resurrected his own terrifying childhood memories of the
Holocaust…the suffering, hiding, incarceration, being arrested and deported, and
ultimately his survival. Only 7% of Jewish children in Europe survived the
Holocaust and Paul Drexler was one of those survivors.
Paul will be visiting Melbourne this weekend for the launch of his book, ‘In Search
of My Father; the journey of a child Holocaust survivor’ at the Jewish Museum of
Australia, 26 Alma Road, St. Kilda on Sunday, 11th
April, @ 1pm – following the
opening of the exhibition:
THERESIENSTADT:DRAWN FROM THE INSIDE
The historic town of Terezin was turned into a ghetto by the Nazis during World
War 11 and used as a way-station en-route to the death camps. Manipulated to
deceive the world about their mistreatment of the Jewish peoples, the town had a
hidden side.
Paul Drexler is available for interviews:
On Saturday 10th April, @ 2.30, there will be a book-signing event and speaking
engagement held at Readings Bookstore, Acland Street, St. Kilda.
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