Miracle : the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz
Calvin, Mike2026
Book
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 with Naftali Schiff.
Author:
Calvin, Mike, authorSchiff, Naftali, author
Imprint:
London : Bantam, 2026.
Collation:
xxiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780857507891 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.531853862940.531853940.531 CAL940.531853 CAL
Language:
English
Subject:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)Nazi concentration camps -- Poland -- OświęcimJewish children in the HolocaustHolocaust survivorsWarfare and DefencePolandTrue stories of heroism, endurance & survivalBiography & non-fiction proseEuropean historyHistoryNazi concentration camps -- Poland -- OswiecimThe HolocaustSecond World WarFascism & Nazism
BRN:
4208693