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Jeremy Dronfield

Tuesday 26th March 2019

Venue
First Floor, Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely, 9 High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4LJ
Doors Open
7.10pm
Start Time
7.30pm
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Vienna, 1939. Nazi police seize Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer and his son, Fritz, and send the pair to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz, a certain death sentence, his son refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.

Local author Jeremy  Dronfield tells this incredible story for the first time, using  Gustav’s secret diary and meticulous archive research – a searing, deeply humane account of the best and the worst of humanity.