Story of a life

Aharon Appelfeld's childhood ends abruptly: Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, his mother is shot. Once a sheltered child of assimilated Jews in Czernowitz, he must now fight for his life. After months in the ghetto and in a camp, he is also separated from his father and survives the war as a kitchen boy for the Red Army. Orphaned, he sails to Palestine: a fourteen-year-old who has lost everything and must start a second life. Friedhelm Ptok reads this intelligent and poetic book, which tells of the struggle between memory and forgetting, speaking and silence, with great empathy. Unabridged reading by Friedhelm Ptok, 1 mp3-CD, approximately 6 hours and 21 minutes.