Join Milton Public Library for a special event as we host author and Holocaust Survivor Max Eisen to share his amazing story of survival as detailed in his 2019 Canada Reads Winning memoir By Chance Alone.

Max was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia. When he was ten years old, Hungary occupied Slovakia and eventually in 1944 his family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most of them were immediately murdered in gas chambers. Max, his father and uncle worked as slave laborers, but 2 months later his father and uncle were selected out for experiments never to be seen again. Max managed to survive the Death March in January 1945 and camps at Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee in Austria. He was liberated by the American 761st Black Panther Tank Battalion on May 6th 1945. Eventually he returned to Czechoslovakia where he spent 3 years in an orphanage. Max arrived at Quebec City in October 1949 en route to Toronto where he currently resides.

In 2016 Max Eisen released his memoir ‘By Chance Alone’ published by Harper Collins.

An Evening with Max Eisen