I first want to thank everyone who sent me birthday wishes.  I tried to send every one of you a thank you, but if I missed you my apologizes.  It was a wonderful feeling for an 84 year old man to see how many people remembered my birthday.

My Holocaust memoir, Scheisshaus Luck has been available for a couple of weeks now and we have received some wonderful reviews on Amazon.  Three of those reviews come from MySpace friends.

Frode is one of my oldest friends here at MySpace (along with his wonderful wife, Mandisa).  I am proud to be his friend.  Frode is a development professional working for the United Nations in Kosovo, a country scarred by hatred and genocide.  Here is his review:

60 years in the works  4 Stars  Frode "World Resident"

"Scheisshaus Luck will be an expression in your vocabulary because after reading this book you really will know its significance. Thankfully few of us will ever experience even less survive the ordeal that Pierre Berg went through. Therefore it is really useful and sadly also necessary to be reminded of the consequences of totalitarianism in its most barbaric form. You will not regret getting hold of this book and the matter-of-fact unsentimental but disturbing eyewitness account benefiting from both having been written when the experience was fresh in the observant young mind and with the additional wisdom and perspective of the 60 years it took to get it published."

Mrs. May might be my number one fan.  She has been leaving her review all over the internet.  Her husband just came back from Iraq.  Here is her review:

An amazing account from an amazing man  5 Stars  Mrs. May, Amarillo, TX

I met Pierre Berg through myspace before his book was published. He is an amazing, inspiring and strong man. I cannot believe he has kept his sense of humor for so long, and through all he has endured.

This book was by far the best account of the Holocaust that I have ever read, and i have read many. Pierre is more descriptive in his writing. He explains the things we don't want to know. This is crucial because we all should know that, Yes these horrible things did happen. We should never forget how cruel humanity can be, and we must never forget how harrowing each victim of the Holocaust was.

It was refreshing to read about someone other than a Jewish survivor. While everyone knows that the Jews were inhumanely slaughtered, we all need to remember that there were many others there. Pierre describes the significance of each color of triangle that was sewn on each pair of "pajamas" so everyone will know everyone's "crime".

This is a must for everyone interested in the Holocaust.

Vera is one of my newest friends.  Here is her Amazon review:

"I've read many Holocaust memoirs, and I think every single one is important in its own right; it's crucial to remember the horrors of the Holocaust so that we do not repeat the past. As stated in the summary of 'Scheisshaus Luck', we are quickly coming to a time when there will be no living Holocaust survivors. That fact alone makes this memoir even more relevant and necessary.

Arrested at the age of 18, Pierre Berg spent time at a holding camp in Drancy, was transferred to Monowitz (part of Auschwitz), and eventually to Dora. Pierre is very frank in describing his experiences, from the nightmarish train ride to Auschwitz, to becoming almost immune to all the death around him, and the indignities tolerated by the prisoners in order to survive. One story that stayed with me long after I finished the book was that of the officers using human bodies to catch eels in the river. (many argue that the officials did not have a choice in carrying out the mass murders - it was do or die; this story and many others show that their cruelty went far and above what was ordered)While the subject of the memoir is dark and depressing in itself, I felt that Pierre's message was, "Don't feel bad for me. This is what I went through, I survived, and I just want others to learn about what happened".

Pierre Berg's memoir is an effective counter attack on those who believe that Holocaust is nothing more than a Jewish conspiracy. Pierre was a French gentile, and his experiences in German labor and concentration camps confirm that Holocaust was a reality, not a conspiracy made up to advance the interests of Jewish people. All the while, his writing style is youthful, candid, and extremely readable. I found myself horrified, amused and intensely interested all in one."

Both my co-writer Brian and myself want to thank Frode, Mrs May and Vera for taking the time to write and post their reviews on Amazon.  With it being such an uphill battle to get reviewed in any newspaper or magazine, I'm so glad my friends here are helping spread the word about my memoir.

Tomorrow, I am going to share with you the amazing story of another Holocaust survivor whose daughter is one of my MySpace friends.

Goodnight.