The biography of a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor, as told to his daughter when she began to ask questions she had held back asking for over 40 years. His story takes place in Darmstadt, Germany, where he was born in 1914, and follows his family through the years when Adolf Hitler came to power and how it effected the daily lives of the citizens of a country that would forever be scarred by the reign and terror of Hitler'sThird Reich. Thirteen Is my Lucky Number is the biography of German-Jewish Holocaust survivor Ludwig Max Kahn, as told to his adult daughter, Deborah Frink. The story unfolds in Germany at the start of World War I and follows the Kahn family into World War II when being Jewish in Germany cost many dearly. On November 10, 1938, the morning after the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), when Adolf Hitler began burning down synagogues and making mass arrests of Jews throughout Germany, Ludwig, at age twenty-four, finds himself arrested by the SS and transported to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. His crime? He is a Jew. My Lucky Number Is Thirteen details Ludwig’s incredible tale of surviving the Holocaust and immigrating to the United States where he must also face discrimination as a German during World War II. Ludwig finds the courage to survive, become an American citizen, and attempt to save his family in Germany. Through it all, he maintains a positive attitude. Ludwig’s story is one of optimism over despair, of heroism in the face of horror. Deborah Frink has captured his experiences largely in his own words. Today, because some people doubt the Holocaust occurred and antisemitism is on the rise again, she has written this book to tell her father’s story and show the world why such horrible things must never happen again. “An incredible tale of a Holocaust survivor unlike any I’ve read before. It makes me appreciate the freedom we experience in the United States. Ludwig Kahn’s story must never be forgotten.” — Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and award-winning author of The Mysteries of Marquette