Shouldering Fate A Moving Personal Account of a War Survivors Remarkable Life



Martin is the author of Shouldering Fate, his personal account of his own remarkable life. He was born Hungarian -- a Hungarian Jew -- and during the Second World War, at a time of the Nazi Holocaust, he suffered as Jews of the day were made to suffer.

His life ultimately was spared at Auschwitz -- as thousands of others were not -- and his account of his time spent there is both poignant and heart-breaking. It is difficult to imagine, more than half a century later, the degree of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. What emerges in Martin's account of his time at Auschwitz is the sheer resilience of the human spirit. The will, the fierce determination, to survive horror stands above all else.

But life, of course, moved on for Martin -- the end of the war, his love and marriage to his beloved Gaby, their family life together, their movement through Hungary and Romania and Israel and, eventually, Canada, the land of their dreams. That's where Martin spent the better part of his working life and where he continues to live in retirement -- as a later-life convert to Roman Catholicism.

Shouldering Fate is that rare literary accomplishment. It is, on the surface, simply an account of a man's eight decades of living. But what separates Martin's work is the poignancy of the writing and the period during which he has lived -- a half-century of enormous human accomplishment, all preceded by the horrific struggles of the Second World War.

That war not only took peoples' lives, it shaped them as well. Shouldering Fate is an apt title for the life story of a man who has taken what life has thrown his way, shouldered its burdens, and moved steadily forward, with hope and optimism as his travelling companions, walking in his every step.

Shouldering Fate

by John Martin

ISBN: 9780980905106

$25.95





Shouldering Fate A Moving Personal Account of a War Survivors Remarkable Life