Travel from a comfortable middle-class life in Lodz, Poland, to the depths of hell in
the world’s most notorious Nazi Death Camp, Auschwitz Birkenau, gut-wrenching hunger and
daily struggle to survive constant danger in this gruesome account of brutality that defines the
heretofore unimaginable cruelty of man verses man.
Narrated with frequent flashbacks of significant events from the past, The Arrival: I Sought God
in Hell is a lucid, well-written, powerfully authentic and vividly depicted account of a seventeenyear-
old boy who survives the starvation and trials of the Lodz Ghetto, including witnessing a
public hanging, only to arrive with his mother in Auschwitz and immediately view a notorious
kapo brutally torture and murder the Chief of the Lodz-Ghetto Police; observe the demise of
the ghetto’s Eldest of the Jews, “King” Chaim Rumkowski; face the daily grind in this factory of
death as implemented by the wanton cruelty of the kapos and the SS; and behold other historical
events all scrupulously recalled with a deep comprehension of human emotions that surface
when confronting extreme situations. As the days progress and death becomes imminent, the
protagonist also struggles with his trust in God.