Luc, a French pastor sent to Auschwitz for helping Jews, enlists the help of Jacob, a Jewish man sent to the camp after he tried to hijack a train bound for Auschwitz, to plan an escape from the death camp.
... long time and could now be useful elsewhere with their experience; and finally some Soviet prisoners of war who were hoping that some international rights might apply to them and the thousands of gypsies who'd been 34 Escape from Hell.
Other books try to humanize history so it doesn't just look like a plethora of facts on each page. And others put a reader inside the minds and bodies of those in the book -- bridging facts, fiction and emotions together.
His words never reached the half million Hungarian Jews who were herded there. The story of that suppression is told here.
Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself.
This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man—a gifted “escape artist” who even as a teenager understand that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death, a man who deserves to take his place ...
This book tells Wetzler's story." · Sir Martin Gilbert "Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz, and especially, his and Vrba's harrowing flight to Slovakia.
On 6th November 1942, 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrei Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story.
As the Russian allies close in, Mengele steps up his selection process and sentences Klara to the gas chamber.
Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald – where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value.
A former prisoner of the Gestapo, Kulka leads us through the horror of the Nazi death camps, describing such unbearable conditions as the over-crowded ghettos where Jewish minorities were left...