The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz

Hodder & Stoughton, London. Fine. Hardcover. 1444714163 . 8vo 263 pages illustrated with black & white photographs and maps. Fine black cloth hard back with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. 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. .