Daring Escape From Auschwitz Revealed
- From: "Heinrich" <Heinrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:07:41 +0200
Thursday 28th 2007f June 2007
A Holocaust survivor's account of how he escaped Auschwitz and saved thousands of Jews will be released in English for the first time this week.
Slovakian Jew, Alfred Wetzler, escaped the Nazi concentration camp with his friend Rudolf Vrba in 1944 and smuggled a ground plan of it to Allied forces.
The map was used by Winston Churchill to order the bombings of government buildings in Hungary, killing Nazi officials in charge of deporting Jews to Auschwitz.
It showed details of gas chambers, crematoriums and a label from a Zyklon gas canister inside the camp.
Wetzler was arrested in Slovakia in 1942 by the Nazis and was held in Auschwitz for two years before escaping and hiding under a woodpile for four days until a search for him was called off.
The book, Escape from Hell: The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol, was originally written in 1963 in Slovakian but only recently translated.
He writes, "It is incredible how tough human life can be, how quickly a person, even with a broken arm, a dislocated foot, a broken head, and bitten by dogs, will do what is asked of him when over him hangs the cudgel waved by the good will of the Reich."
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Polish President Lech Kaczynski joined with Polish born Israeli President Shimon Peres at the site of a museum on Polish Jews.
The Museum of Polish Jews will be built where Jews lived in the Warsaw Ghetto before the outbreak of the Second World War and will showcase 800 years of Polish-Jewish history from its origins to the Holocaust as well as contemporary issues of anti-semitism. It is due to be completed in 2010.
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