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"In 1933 Henry Oster was just 5 years old, a carefree kindergartner in Cologne, Germany, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power. For the next 12 years Henry struggled to keep on breathing while his family, his friends and the Jews of Europe were overwhelmed by the Holocaust.

What impels civilized human beings to commit unspeakable crimes against their fellow man? How do the survivors find the strength to go on? Can they ever forgive? Can we ever forget?

The Kindness of the Hangman is the gripping, never-before-written account of one lost German boy, totally alone, clawing to survive in t hetidal wave of Nazi genocide.

Henry hid his mother from the SS in an attic in the Lodz, Poland Ghetto. He escaped a firing squad in Auschwitz. Endured a death march through the Polish winter. Formed a life-long friendship in the nightmare barracks of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Saw his friends killed by a British fighter-bomber. And came within hours of starving to death before his liberation by General Patton's 3rd Army.

Henry rebuilt his life from nothing, coming of age as a free
young man in Paris. He arrived in the U.S. with no English,
no money and no education. And from the ashes of a ruined past
built a life full of love, joy and compassion.

Now, complete with chilling documents liberated
from the Nazi concentration camps themselves,
his heartbreaking, triumphant story can finally be told."

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Henry Oster was placed in Auschwitz- Birkenau when he was just 5 years old. Henry was then able to survive through a firing squad with his mother, but the rest of his family did not make it.

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How did Henry Oster resist the Nazis and survive the holocaust?

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How did Henry Oster resist the Nazis and survive the holocaust?

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Date of birth-  He was born in 1928.
He is still living today.
He had the same hobbies as any young kid.
He was just 5 years old when he was taken to a camp.

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"My family was pulled from my arms"

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What is resistance?

Resistance is not letting someone take something from you.

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Henry Oster did not live the life that anyone wants to live. Henry was just a normal, little boy that was born into the Holocaust. When the Holocaust Henry did a lot of things to survive and to get past the Holocaust. one of the big things he did was, he had to escape a firing squad and go hide with his mother.

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This is what the SS firing squad looked like. (Imagine trying to escape this.)

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This is Henry's Holocaust paper. It is basically the same thing as our birth certificate.

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Henry saw many things like...
-His best friend dying
-his dad being taken away
-his family being separated