The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

Zusatztext A 'strange! brave and bracing story'. Informationen zum Autor Denis Avey was born in Essex in 1919. He fought in the desert during the Second World War and was captured and held as a Prisoner of War in a camp near Auschwitz III. In 2010 he received a British Hero of the Holocaust award. Denis died in 2015. Klappentext THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story - a tale as gripping as it is moving - which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz. Zusammenfassung The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

Product details

• Authors: Deni Avey, Denis Avey, Rob Bromby, Rob Broomby, Broomby Rob
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9781444714197
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-1419-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories; Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories; Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two; Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Europe, Biography: general, HISTORY / Military / World War II, military history, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, History: earliest times to present day, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949