Auschwitz survivor’s story gets attention on Squidoo

Thanks to Squidoo – the Web-content platform created by Seth Godin – Eugeniusz Tytyk’s inspiring story is quickly getting worldwide exposure with visitors coming not only from the Internet powerhouses like the US, Great Britain and Canada, but also from India, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa and many more.

Squidoo, a relatively new (started just last year) Web 2.0 phenomenon has quickly become one of the fastest growing sites on the Internet. It is an easy-to-use tool for creating single-page “lenses” – websites on any topic a lensmaster is passionate about.

Ilona Zuzalek – an Eugeniusz Tytyk’s daughter – created a Squidoo lens that shows how passionate she is not only about her father’s enormous sacrifice and sufferings, but also about helping the young generation to find role models to follow.

Ilona tells (and shows) Eugeniusz’s story that is both tragic and fascinating – something that could inspire young people. Imagine being a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp where Eugeniusz spent eleven months. But it was only one of many places where he was exposed to hunger, exhaustive slave work, tortures, beatings, sicknesses, cold and so many other predicaments. Three times he survived selections to death in gas chamber – those infamous selections by Dr. Mangele! In his book “Living Shadows”, Eugeniusz describes physical and emotional sufferings he and thousands of prisoners were exposed to in the Nazi camps run by the SS during WWII.

The Squidoo lens – “Eugeniusz Tytyk (1920-2006) – An Auschwitz Survivor, My Father, My Hero” presents audio excerpts from the “Livings Shadows” book and a number of unique photographs documenting Eugeniusz’s five years under the Nazi imprisonment. Among them are photos of letters he sent to his mother from Auschwitz and the Moorlager camps as well as from the Vienna and the Stein an der Donau prisons.

The “Eugeniusz Tytyk…” lens can be found at http://www.squidoo.com/livingshadows. Ilona also writes an accompanying blog – “Living Shadows Story” – at http://www.living-shadows-story.blogspot.com where she provides more information about her father’s fascinating WWII experience and current stories about other Holocaust survivors. Eugeniusz Tytyk’s book “Living Shadows” is available at http://www.cafepress.com/61835.40794742