Memoirs of Shalom Schotten, born in 1934 in Vienna, about his experiences in Austria, Slovakia, France, and Switzerland during and after the Holocaust

Memoirs of Shalom Schotten, born in 1934 in Vienna, about his experiences in Austria, Slovakia, France, and Switzerland during and after the Holocaust Childhood in Mattersdorf (Mattersburg)—Germany annexes Austria in March 1938; witness's father arrested as Germans arrive; father imprisoned, beaten, and tortured; father released, leaves Austria, and moves to France; places five children with relatives in Guta, Czechoslovaka; mother moves to France; witness and sister, Ilse, placed by parents in France with a friend of the family; the three other children remain in Czechoslovaka (and perish in the Holocaust); witness and sister stay in a children's home in Broût Vernet in 1939–1941; father inducted into the French Army in 1939 and discharged in 1940; witness's parents escape (separately) southward, to Lyon; remain in contact with their children in Broût Vernet by letters; news about birth of brother, Yossi (François) in August 1941; witness and sister reunited with parents and baby brother in Lyon; life in Lyon; family members exfiltrated to Switzerland in autumn 1942; spend the rest of the war in Switzerland (witness and sister in children's homes; parents in refugee camps); family returns to France; lives in Aix les Bains from September 1945 on; witness studies in yeshivas and schools in France and Switzerland in 1945–1947; family moves to Paris; witness's mother dies in Paris in spring 1947; witness attends yeshivas in France, Belgium, and England; immigrates to Israel in 1952; serves in the IDF in the late 1950s; studies graphic design in London; works for the Thames & Hudson publishing house.