Escape From Hell: The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol
Alfred Wetzler (Ed.)
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Description for Escape From Hell: The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol
Hardback. 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. This work offers an account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions in the camp. Editor(s): Varnai, Peter. Translator(s): Ewald, Osers. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
523g
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845451837
SKU
V9781845451837
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About Alfred Wetzler (Ed.)
Ewald Osers has translated over 150 books and received many translation prizes and honours.
Reviews for Escape From Hell: The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol
...a compelling read; a real thriller. It provides very vivid descriptions of daily life in the camp and recounts in details the miraculous escape and the escapees' subsequent struggle to convince the unbelieving world of the happenings in Auschwitz-Birkenau. - British Czech and Slovak Review