Beyond the Gates of Hell

"After Mayer Hersh suffered the horrors and deprivation of the Holocaust, including eighteen long months at Auschwitz, he rebuilt his life in Britain and to this day sees it as his mission to educate others about what really happened in the concentration camps. He survived forty-two Dr. Mengele health inspections and traveled a total of 1,650 miles in a cattle truck without food or water. He weighed about eighty pounds when liberated in 1945 by the Russians at Thierenstadt. This is his story"--Publisher's description.