Miracle : the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz
Calvin, Mike2026
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Total copies: 1
Early on the morning of October 9, 1944, 700 boys, aged between 13 and 17, were taken out of Block 11 at Auschwitz. The night before, during a visit by Dr Josef Mengele, their identification cards had been stamped with a solitary German word - gestorben - 'died' in English. They were then marched by 25 bayonet-wielding SS men to Crematorium 5, stripped, and herded into a gas chamber. This book is the story of a true-life miracle of the 51 boys who were pulled from that gas chamber - the only Holocaust survivors known to have escaped such a close brush with the Nazi killing machine - and given a second chance at life. A life, of course, that would be so horrifically snatched from those around them.
Main title:
Miracle : the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz / Michael Calvin, Naftali Schiff.
Author:
Calvin, Mike, authorSchiff, Naftali, author
Imprint:
London : Bantam Press, 2026.
Collation:
272 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780857507891 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.531853862940.5318
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
971101