My Never Ending List

Pierre didn’t expect to be celebrating his 19^th birthday among other prisoners and perhaps he thought he would be at least celebrating it with his family.  Here was Pierre alive and working on his 19^th birthday in a Nazi concentration camp during WW2 and depending on how you look at it, that could be a good thing or bad thing.  In Pierre’s book we are allowed a true accounting of the world he existed in during the Holocaust during his eighteen-month capture until his nightmare was finally over with his arrival back home after the liberation.  Pierre survived four concentration camps as a teen.  His struggle to survival and make sense of what was occurring around him is something you will just have to read.  Starting with a small romance with a Jewish girl Stella, Pierre keeps this fire inside himself hoping that someday he will be reunited with her once his nightmare ends.  It’s a struggle to survive from the conditions Pierre endeavors to the jobs he has to perform.  Day-in and day-out the mental anguish and physical abuse toughed you or sent you out to the trucks.   The stories he remembers he writes with such details and energy that they come alive on the pages.  Great book if you like this type of history. Thank you for sharing your story Mr. Berg.

I truly enjoyed this book.  There were so many stories that I treasured after reading it.   I loved the line “By no means was I going to become a mile marker.” This line was taken when they were doing their Death March after leaving Auschwitz.  The story about being in the cattle railroad car and stopping all the time was another remarkable story.  Sharing the beds, incredible story also.  The eels….crazy story there. I could go on but then I would give away most of the book. Just know that there are lots of interesting accounts that Mr. Berg shares that will make you stop and think. 

 It’s really hard to find a word that can describe how you feel after reading a book like this.  You feel so much for the survivors, there is great sadness for what they had to go through, for what they had to see and experience.  There are no words that can describe the evil that that one man did that caused so many individuals pain and suffering.  I am so thankful, appreciative and grateful that individuals like Mr. Berg share their true accounting of what they went through so we know the truth.  I realize sometimes that it is hard to bring up the past but we need to know the past so the past will not repeat itself and we need to know the truth.  Thanks again for sharing your stories.