By Bread Alone The Story of A4685 Author:Mel Mermelstein The true story of Mel Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. Mel is the only member of his immediate family to have survived. His mother, father, two sisters and a brother perished in those infamous death camps. Mel vividly describes that agonizing period of personal suffering and sorrow which began for him in... more » April of 1944 when he was just a boy of seventeen.« less