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A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in
Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which
the revelations were met. "Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His
escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling
for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass
murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews.... No
other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from
the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them."-Sir
Martin Gilbert Together with another young Slovak Jew Rudolf Vrba,
both deported in 1942, the author succeeded in escaping from the
notorious death camp in the spring of 1944. There were some very
few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war, but it was
these two who smuggled out the damning evidence - a ground plan of
the camp, constructional details of the gas chambers and
crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of
Cyclone gas. The book is cast in the form of a novel to allow
information not personally collected by the two fugitives but
provided for them by a handful of reliable friends, to be included.
Nothing, however, has been invented. From the Introduction by Dr.
Robert Rozett Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of
Auschwitz, and especially, his and Vrba's harrowing flight to
Slovakia. The day-by-day account of the tremendous difficulties the
pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp
and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching. [...]
Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity
and valor of two young men, who sought to inform the world about
the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow
humans.
"Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the
report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth
about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving
the lives of 120,000 Jews: the Jews of Budapest who were about to
be deported to their deaths. No other single act in the Second
World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS
had determined for them. 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. The day-by-day account of the tremendous difficulties the
pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp
and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching. ...]
Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity
and valor of two young men, who sought to inform the world about
the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow
humans." . From Introduction by Dr Robert Rozett] Together with
another young Slovak Jew, both of them deported in 1942, the author
succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring
of 1944. There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz
during the war, but it was these two who smuggled out the damning
evidence - a ground plan of the camp, constructional details of the
gas chambers and crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from
a canister of Cyclone gas. The present book is cast in the form of
a novel to allow factual information not personally collected by
the two fugitives, but provided for them by a handful of reliable
friends, to be included. Nothing, however, has been invented. It is
a shocking account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions
in the camp, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief the
fugitive's revelations met with after their return. Ewald Osers has
translated over 150 books and received many translation prizes and
honours.
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