Bread, Butter, and Sugar: A Boy's Journey Through The Holocaust And Postwar Europe

This is a short and matter-of-fact book and yet it tells a gripping story―among the last such stories that will be told from direct experience, since the last of the survivors of the Holocaust are dying off. Even readers familiar with these stories may thank Schiller for telling this one in time. — Chris Powell, Journal Inquirer in Manchester

Martin Schiller has told us the story of what should have been his childhood spent together with his brother in slave labor and concentration camps and the struggle for survival―day in and day out― that enabled four members of his family to survive. His depiction of the last days of Buchenwald is riveting. One glimpses what it was like to be there. The brevity of the work only underscores its power. Like music, one must understand the silence between the words that give voice to the unspoken. With Bread, Butter, and Sugar, he has discharged his obligation to the past and made an important contribution to the future. — Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University