Das Buch des Alfred Kantor

The moving and horrifying memories of a man who survived 3 detention camps, as he drew them during and after his detention at the model-ghetto Terezin (1941-1943), the death-camp Auschwitz-Burkenau (1943-1944), and the labor camp Swcharzheide (1944-1945).

After his liberation, Alfred Kantor creates a book with 127 watercolor and pencil drawings. By the summer of 1945, he had finished his book. He then begins to resume his life: he comes to America, returns to art school, and enrolls at the US Army as a glockenspiel musician. After his discharge, he returns to art school and begins to work at an advertising agency. He marries a woman who had also been in Terezin and together they raise two kids. His spare-time passion is the piano, and his home remains his joy.

One can only wonder why this book is not more well-known and more studied at school.