Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubenstein Story

Author: Nancy Sprowell Geise Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, 21-year-old Joe answered a knock at the door of the cottage he shared with his widowed mother and siblings. German soldiers forced him onto a crowded open-air truck. Wearing only an undershirt and shorts, Joe was left on the truck with no protection from the cold. By the next morning, several around him would be dead. From there, things got much worse for young Joe. He arrived at Auschwitz on April 30, 1942. He didn’t reveal how he survived several of the most notorious concentration camps—as so many others perished—until he was over 90 years old. Paperback 372 pages