Published: April 05, 2010

Holocaust Survivor Ivan Gabor Shares Remarkable Life Story in Thrilling New Book

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MIAMI - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Echoes Of My Footsteps is a thrilling new book about the incredible life of Holocaust survivor Ivan Gabor, as told to Jeffrey Beal. The book shares the unlikely true story of a man who survived the war, became a teenage theater star, endured starvation and deprivation as an Israeli immigrant, and suffered unimaginable psychological trauma - only to come out on top as a celebrated Argentine clothing designer, and later as a Miami businessman.

The book recently received a glowing review from Kirkus Discoveries, concluding that the autobiography is: "A fascinating memoir that details the personal anxieties and triumphs of an iconoclastic 20th century life...This refreshing resistance to political correctness or stock theology reminds readers of why an individual's life is relevant for memoir in the first place" (complete review: www.IvanGabor.com).

Filled with historical detail and incredible tales of bravery, Gabor, a long-time South Floridian, candidly shares his life's adventures with depth, humor and humility.

Born in Romania as Alfred Grossman, his family moved to Hungary and changed its identity before the war to minimize imminent persecution by the Nazis. Thus began a series of adventures that would find Gabor and his family fighting for their lives.

Gabor's family temporarily evaded capture, but was eventually moved into a segregated building marked with a yellow star similar to the arm bands they were forced to wear. His father was taken away and forced into slave labor, and his pregnant mother narrowly escaped when the family was rescued and given asylum in a Swedish safe house. When neutrality was violated, the family was marched down to the Danube to be killed, just as 25,000 others had been. Remarkably, they escaped in the nick of time.

"The book puts you in the thick of things, yet is bearable. We meet Ivan as a well adjusted individual before we flash back to the war, so we're safe in the knowledge of a happy ending," Beal writes. "Because it's true, it lets us know that, no matter how bad things are, anything is possible."

Echoes of my Footsteps is available at all major internet book sites and Books and Books stores in Miami.

www.IvanGabor.com