Útěk z Osvětimi - Šokující skutečný příběh člověka, jenž unikl z pekla Osvětimi – Pogožev Andrej (2015)

In close proximity to the town on the banks of the Vistula, 120 kilometers from Krakow, stood the largest concentration camp in all territories occupied by the Germans. When it was liberated by Soviet soldiers on January 27, 1945, they found several thousand sick and emaciated human wrecks who had miraculously survived. One and a half million people perished here. You hold in your hands a credible and dramatic account from an eyewitness, Auschwitz prisoner number 1418, who managed to escape certain death one night amidst the glare of flares, searchlights, and the whistling of bullets... You read a testimony of the courage and bravery of war prisoners and the seemingly impossible act of escaping from Auschwitz. A total of seven hundred escape attempts were made, about four hundred of which ended unsuccessfully. Captured escapees were usually beaten to death, and after each successful escape, those close to the fugitive were killed. The author of the book wrote a true story about the escape of a group of prisoners, of whom only five achieved the longed-for freedom. It is a shocking and incredible story of a man who, as one of the few, managed to escape from hell. Even then, however, he was far from safe...