The Blood Tattoo [Paperback]

Ebi Gabor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1987

"The Blood Tattoo" is the riveting story of how 17 year old Hungarian Ebi Gabor and her mother survived daily in Auschwitz and several Nazi death camps. This is the story lived by thousands of women broken down into daily descriptions of survival. They dreaded every morning and feared death every night, subsisted on a very tiny square of butter on a thin slice of bread, shared a bowl of watery soup with other women and drank a shared cup of drug laced coffee every day. They also fought to live and learned to hope.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: Pubs Assoc (October 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930383117
• ISBN-13: 978-0930383114
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,025,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm biased....., September 21, 2006

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SteveG (Burke, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Blood Tattoo (Paperback)

Okay, Okay...you'll say I'm biased because it tells my Aunt's story and how she survived together with my most loving grandmother after removal from their home, imprisonment in a ghetto, and then the train deportation to Auschwitz. I have loaned my copy to so many people and each person returns it to me stunned. It is truly a gripping story and you will know my aunt through this book--she will touch you too. Please buy it, read it and then loan it to someone who wants or needs to learn more about modern man's greatest atrocity.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Auschwitz Survivor Learned Not Only to Survive, But Thrive & Reach Out, November 7, 2008

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Diana Barnum (Hilliard, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Blood Tattoo (Paperback)

I first learned of this book when I was seeking a survivor type of story. I'd wanted to be a writer and needed to learn about using a computer in order to compete in the business writing industry. However, not being tech savvy at all, I couldn't even turn a PC on at that time, and had little to no hope, with the concept seeming so daunting.

After reading Ebi's book, I was inspired by her hope in all types of situations that to me seemed utterly hopeless. She repeatedly took horrendous situations and turned them into opportunities. For example, Ebi and her mother had to share a shelf at a concentration camp with people who spoke different languages, making communication nearly impossible. Yet she learned to overcome that lack of knowledge and disregard for humanity to communicate effectively in spite of shear hatred, ugliness and cruelty all around. She learned to not only survive, help her mother and others, but thrive afterwards, against all odds, leading a wonderful life in the USA in beautiful, sunny California.

Ebi also enjoyed a wonderful, close, loving relationship with her mother (who is now deceased), which was also inspiring. As insecurity and fear gripped me when new motherhood came into my own life, she inspired me to be the best I could be as a mom, for which I'll always be grateful.

Like many other brave and caring people, Ebi is active against genocide and related atrocities that are still going on in the world. She gives tours at the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, where part of the Museum's efforts is to educate about and stimulate moral leadership, confronting hatred, antisemitism and genocide, not only in the past during the Nazi reign, but today worldwide, as I understand.

More info is available here:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Member and Donor Services

P.O. Box 90988

Washington, DC 20090-0988

Tel: 866.99USHMM (866.998.7466)

E-mail: [e-mail]

Ebi, you are a heroine, in every sense of the word, a woman of distinguished courage and ability, admired for your brave deeds and noble qualities. Thanks for sharing your past with us. May our world's future be brighter. May God Bless you and your efforts through your wonderful book! Knowing you is a blessing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Influential, October 15, 2006

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C. Cooper "Coops" (Wales U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Blood Tattoo (Paperback)

I am from the UK and have had great priveledge in meeting Ebi and becoming a friend to her. She has been my inspiration in devloping my knowledge on the Holocaust. Her book evokes all the emotions one can imagine. She has written from the heart and when one reads her book one can anly imagine what she and her family were going through. A must read. Thankyou Ebi for sharing your story with us, I know it must have been a harrowing experience when you wrote this but I am so glad you did.