ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ

On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story.

About the author

Andrey Pogozhev was born in 1912 at Dontsk in the ukraine, and before the war he worked as a miner and mining engineer. He was mobilized in June 1941 and fought as a platoon commander of regimental artillery, but he was captured in September. He spend a year at Auschwitz, escaped, was recaptured, and then escaped from the Germans again. He finally reached the Soviet lines in 1943. After the war he went back to his work as a mining engineer. Andrev Pogozhev died in 1990.

Summary

Rare memoir of a Soviet soldier's escape from a concentration camp. First-hand record of a daily struggle for survival.

Product details

• Authors: Andrej Pogozhev, ANDREY POGOZHEV
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781526776495
• ISBN: 978-1-5267-7649-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 233 mm x 157 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 326 g
• Illustrations: 20 black and white illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Zweiter Weltkrieg - Periode (1939 bis 1945), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust, History - Military / War