The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield

​The Kleinmann family could be any Jewish family in Vienna during the war but their story took them on so many different paths.  It is a story of family, hope and despair with a little bit of luck thrown in and it is one amazing journey.  Based on Gustav Kleinmann's journal that he managed to keep secret in the camps, we learn of his and his oldest son's journey through some of the worst concentration camps.  We also learn of Tinni Kleinmann's never ending quest to find safe places for her remaining children.  Their youngest went to America and his older sister became a housekeeper in England then eventually moved to America. Jeremy Dronfield spares no one the horror of war, life in the camps nor does he overdo the frustration and hope of reuniting after the war but instead gives us a remarkable story of one family and the miracle of hope.  4 stars