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No Name No Number: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor
You choose your fate every day. Every time you get out of bed, you make a decision that changes the rest of your life. Sometimes this change is subtle. Other times it rocks your world. If you look closely, you will see a string of choices, however trivial or unconscious, that have guided you along an uncharted path to an unforeseen future.
That fate is what the ancients called “Mistress Fortune.” Such a primal force cannot be forced. She must be seduced. If you seduce fate, she will treat you kindly. If not, God help you.
No Name, No Number is about fateful decisions made under extraordinary circumstances. It is the surreal, step-by-step account of a young man who survived an inferno with his wits alone. The world is at war with itself. You’ve lost all family, friends, and possessions. You’re standing in a boxcar. Life has literally gone to hell. Now what?
This book is precisely about that “what.” How did one man survive the Holocaust? Was he lucky? Of course he was lucky. The harder he worked, the luckier he got. He survived because he relentlessly chose to survive. This book is a chronicle of those choices.
No Name, No Number is both a textbook in conflict resolution and a coming-of-age story. It tells the story of a dreamlike childhood turned nightmare, of a boy forced to become a man before his time, of a world gone over the edge with the people still in it.
The author is ruthlessly honest and shamelessly subjective. This is not just another “Holocaust book.” If you want grisly depictions of torture, mind-numbing statistics, or ‘objective” pronouncements of collective guilt, put this book down. If you want a template in crisis management, look no further.
That fate is what the ancients called “Mistress Fortune.” Such a primal force cannot be forced. She must be seduced. If you seduce fate, she will treat you kindly. If not, God help you.
No Name, No Number is about fateful decisions made under extraordinary circumstances. It is the surreal, step-by-step account of a young man who survived an inferno with his wits alone. The world is at war with itself. You’ve lost all family, friends, and possessions. You’re standing in a boxcar. Life has literally gone to hell. Now what?
This book is precisely about that “what.” How did one man survive the Holocaust? Was he lucky? Of course he was lucky. The harder he worked, the luckier he got. He survived because he relentlessly chose to survive. This book is a chronicle of those choices.
No Name, No Number is both a textbook in conflict resolution and a coming-of-age story. It tells the story of a dreamlike childhood turned nightmare, of a boy forced to become a man before his time, of a world gone over the edge with the people still in it.
The author is ruthlessly honest and shamelessly subjective. This is not just another “Holocaust book.” If you want grisly depictions of torture, mind-numbing statistics, or ‘objective” pronouncements of collective guilt, put this book down. If you want a template in crisis management, look no further.
198 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2025
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Fred Klein
20 booksFred "Fritz" Klein (December 27, 1932 – May 24, 2006) was an American psychiatrist and sex researcher who studied bisexuals and their relationships. He helped begin a foundation that promoted bisexual culture. He was an author and editor, as well as the developer of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid a scale that measures an individual's sexual orientation. Klein believed that sexual orientation changed over the course of a lifetime and that researches underestimated the number of men that had sexual interactions with both sexes
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