HG Kahn

This isn't another Holocaust book, it's an adventure story, says author Hans Kahn, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from the Nazis with no more than the shirt on his back. Luck and Chutzpah is an exciting tale of daring, escape and adventure and about not giving in. It is a gripping, poignant and sometimes funny memoir of his flight from Holland to Belgium, France and Spain, where he sailed to England to join the Dutch Navy-In-Exile. He traveled under the assumed identity of a Belgium naval cadet, went by bicycle, foot and train, hid in coal bins and stowed away on a freighter, hobnobbed with smugglers, whores, priests, resistance fighters and Nazi officers, killed a German guard and holed up for two weeks in a French brothel while the Gestapo looked for him everywhere. He gained his manhood and lost faith in all but himself as he fought to get to the sea which had been his first love. Kahn's story, so brilliantly re-told by Hillel Halkin, one of Israel's most respected writers and translators, is both riveting and inspiring. "Kahn's perilous escape (from the Nazis) to join the free Dutch forces is a story of daring determination and intense passion." Abraham Foxman National Director Anti-Defamation League

January 1, 1997 by Gefen Books

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