Alec Mutzs childhood came to an end in 1939, when Nazi soldiers marched into his hometown of Tarnobrzeg, Poland. His life would never be the same. Within a matter of months his family was torn apart, and ten-year-old Alec found himself struggling to survive alongside his father, Samuel.
Through the Eye of a Needle chronicles the life of a child who is forced to come of age in some of Hitlers most notorious concentration camps. Witness to countless acts of barbarity, he endures slave labor, beatings, starvation, and forced marching during his six years of incarceration. Yet with the support of his father, he lives to see the end of one of historys most epic human tragedies.
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Alec Mutz was born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland in 1930. In 1948, three years after liberation, he immigrated to the United States, where he later served in the U.S. Army. After graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology, he settled permanently in Rochester, NY. A former employee of the Eastman Kodak Corporation, he has spoken about his experiences during the Holocaust at schools and organizations in New York, Florida, and California. He lived to see his book published before his death in 2010. Alec Mutz is survived by his wife Phyllis and their children and grandchildren.
Brian Moore chairs the English Department at the Canandaigua Academy in Upstate New York. He lives in Pittsford, NY with his wife and daughter.
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