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The extraordinary true account of one of the youngest prisoners liberated from Auschwitz -- and of the mystery and miracle of his family's survival. In 1945, in a now-famous piece of archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Here is the unforgettable story of how a father's courageous wit, a mother's fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved his life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working from his own recollections as well as extensive interviews with relatives and survivors who knew the family, Michael relates his inspirational story with the help of daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat. This narrative nonfiction offers an indelible depiction of what happened to one Polish village in the wake of the German invasion in 1939