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The man who broke into Auschwitz : a true story of World War II / Denis Avey, with Rob Broomby.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D805.5.M66 A94 2011

Overview

Summary: Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Avey, Denis, 1919-2015.
Published: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2011
Locale: Poland
Edition: First Da Capo Press edition
Other Authors/Editors: Broomby, Rob.

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9780306819650
0306819651
Physical Description: 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland. Personal narratives. Avey, Denis,--1919-2015. Monowitz (Concentration camp)

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