Surviving Stutthof by Liisa Kovala

This is is an important piece of history that the author was fortunate to save. The author tells the story of her father, then only a teen from Finland who, along with the entire crew of a merchant ship was captured by the Germans during the Second World War. Refusing to join the German military machine, they sent the entire crew to the Stutthof concentration camp. Hard labor under brutal conditions and lack of food was a daily event, but the horror of what their captors brought to situation stayed with the young man for his entire life.

The perseverance and will to live shows the absolute best in the human spirit and should be remembered for all time. Truly inspiring.