Nothing To Lose But My Life

Nothing To Lose But My Life is David Wiener’s compelling memoir that begins with his vivid recollection of his childhood in Lodz and Krotoszyn, Poland surrounded by loving parents and siblings who were part of a vibrant, Orthodox Jewish community.

At thirteen, he witnessed the Nazi invasion of Poland, and his safe world was abruptly and brutally destroyed. Escaping the Lodz ghetto, virtually alone, he wandered from ghetto to ghetto narrowly escaping death, until he was conscripted into a slave labor camp and ultimately transported to Auschwitz. Working in the Messerchmitt airplane factory and in the mines, he and 300 other prisoners were put on a Death March. David ran for his life, and was saved by American soldiers three weeks before the war ended in Europe. Haunted by nightmares of the war and unimaginable personal losses, he began a new life in America, starting a family and building several successful businesses in Los Angeles. Nothing To Lose But My Life is both a witness account of the Holocaust and a personal memoir of one man’s determination to survive in order to keep alive the memory of those lost forever. His book is part of numerous Holocaust archives throughout the United States.