My Name Is B-1259: I Survived Nine Nazi Concentration Camps

By Mr. Michael L. Brown

You are not reading about a survivor. You are one.

My Name Is B-1259 places you inside the first-person experience of Elias Feinzilberg a man who passed through nine Nazi concentration camps and lived to tell the world exactly what happened, one room, one day, one breath at a time.

This is not history observed from a distance. This is history lived from the inside.

Most Holocaust books tell you what happened. This one makes you feel it. From the moment you open the first page, you are not a reader looking in - you are there, inside the experience, inside the fear, inside the impossible will to survive that carried one man through nine separate circles of hell and out the other side.

Elias Feinzilberg spent his final years walking into universities and community halls across Jerusalem, making the same promise to every room he entered that he had once made to his father in the camps not to be forgotten. He died on December 20, 2021, at the age of 104. This book keeps that promise.

Readers have called it the most immediate and devastating Holocaust account they have ever read. Teachers are placing it in front of students. Community leaders are passing it to people who have run out of words for what is happening in the world right now.

If you have ever wanted to truly understand what survival looked like from the inside - not as history, but as lived human experience - this is the book that will show you. Feinzilberg is a young man living in Lodz, Poland, when he is separated from his family as the Nazis invade his country at the start of World War II. At this moment, his life expectancy is at best a few months. Against all odds, surviving the torment, deprivation, and degradation of nine concentration camps, he encounters Esther. Their meeting reinforces a promise he made to his father: to survive. This is a story about the human spirit, love, and triumph. It is particularly relevant in today's environment of rising antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CLZ8XNTL
• ISBN13: 9798218308964
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Michael Brown Novels
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"