BATH — After six years of research, author Ernie Weiss shares his family’s remarkable story of survival in “Out of Vienna: Eight Years of Flight from the Nazis” at Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 6:30 p.m.

There are many stories told by survivors of concentration camps during the Nazi reign. But this story is unique, a news release said. It tells individual tales about a large and close-knit family’s attempts to flee Adolf Hitler.

“Out of Vienna” is about 28 members of the author’s family from Vienna and Prague, who were persecuted by the Nazis. Ten did not survive the Holocaust. Nine were murdered by Nazis. One committed suicide.

Weiss is the son of a Dachau Concentration Camp survivor, yet he never asked about his father’s time in Dachau. Perhaps Weiss wanted to forget the years spent fleeing the Nazis. It was only after his mother’s death that he determined to find out more about his father’s incarceration, and their eight years of hectic flight through 13 countries. Thus began a quest to discover other relative’s whereabouts and fate. The author organized his father’s old photographs and movies and got in touch with relatives and friends. Then he contacted and visited municipal and government agencies in Vienna, Israel, Italy, France and Dachau to document his story.

A nonfiction story, “Out of Vienna” follows the Weiss family’s long flight through 13 European countries to escape the Nazis’ iron fist and cruelty. Engrossing from beginning to end, its dialogue and vivid physical descriptions of places and events are based on personal interviews, research and the author’s own recollections.

Weiss was born in Vienna in 1931. When Hitler invaded Austria in 1938, Weiss and his family fled to Yugoslavia and then to Cuba. They eventually obtained visas and were admitted to the United States in 1946. Weiss attended Brookline High School, Boston University and served two years in the U.S. Army. Now retired, he had a career in sales and marketing.

For more information, call 443-5141.