CHICAGO, June 5, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Edgar Eichbaum is one of those who became victims during the reign of Adolf Hitler. He is an eyewitness to the political events of his day which are now part of Germany's painful history. In this autobiography, Born Jewish, he shares the memories of a turbulent life in Germany.
Edgar Eichbaum is Jewish, born in Germany at the onset of the Third Reich. During Hitler's regime, Jews were sent into gas chambers to die or killed in brutally hideous ways. Growing up in a society where your religion determines your destiny, he was sent by his parents to Palestine at the age of eleven to avoid the bloody extermination of the Jews.
At the height of the internal conflicts in Nazi Germany, the letters from his parents stopped and he never heard from them again. Thinking they too, had suffered the same fate as the other Jews, Eichbaum decided to move on. Trying to forget the tragic death of his family, he focused on studying and learning new things with the help of newfound friends in the Jewish community in Palestine. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the army to serve the Jewish nation. Years later, he moved to the United States to start a new life, got married and started a family of his own.
In this autobiography that chronicles not only his life, but also the events that form an integral part of European politics, author Edgar Eichbaum exposes readers to a tumultuous and painful chapter of German history and the formation of the state of Israel.
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About the Author
At eighteen, upon completing his education at the village, Gad is drafted into the Haganah, the Jewish underground defense force, where he served as a Morse radio operator and later as a signal officer; roles he performed during the years of military struggle preceding the birth of the Jewish state and during its War of Independence.
Discharged from the Israeli defense force at the close of 1949, he embarked of fulfilling his dream of becoming a physician even as he faces enormous hurdles; he does not have a high school diploma, money, or "political connections"; instrumental for admittance into Israel's highly competitive, newly established medical school. Tenacity and resourcefulness helped Gad overcome the stumbling stones on his way; and in 1956, he became a medical doctor, one of the fifty young physicians first to graduate the medical school of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Born Jewish * by Edgar Eichbaum
The Forced Destiny
Publication Date: December 3, 2008
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