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Escaping Hell: The Story of a Polish Underground Officer in Auschwitz and Buchenwald

Escaping Hell: The Story of a Polish Underground Officer in Auschwitz and Buchenwald

Piekarski, Kon

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HolocaustWorld War II

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ISBN10: 1550020714
ISBN13: 9781550020717
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: Aug 8 1996
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald - where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value.

During World War II, Kon Piekarski was a member of the Polish Underground Army, a clandestine resistance movement which operated even inside Auschwitz - organizing spectacular escapes, operating a secret radio network and matching wits with the Gestapo.

After Auschwitz, Piekarski became a prisoner of war at Buchenwald and spent time working in a factory where Russian prisoners of war were used for labour. In the face of constant danger, he and his comrades took every possible opportunity to sabotage the German war industry. He was finally transferred to a small camp near the French border, and escaped three months before the end of the war.

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