Winds of Life. The Destinies of a Young Viennese Jew, 1938-1958 By Gershon Evan

This gripping autobiography follows the author from his boyhood and youth in Vienna, where he survived two and a half years under Nazi rule, to the concentration camp of Buchenwald; it describes his eighty-three-day journey on a small ship with another thousand refugees; his survival of the sinking of the SS Patria; a seven-months' imprisonment by the British; four years in the British Army; the troubling and dangerous times of 1946-1948 in Palestine, and two years in the Israeli army. In 1958, after working with a water and oil drilling company for eight years, he moved to the United States and now resides in San Franciso, California.