Rabu, 13 September 2017

A Journey to Hell and Back: Conversation with Denis Avey

After 65 years of silence, 92-year-old Denis Avey tells an astounding story in The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz. In summer 1941, the Desert Rat was wounded and captured in North Africa. He spent four years in POW camps—including work camp E715 at Auschwitz. There he fraternized with “stripeys” (Jewish prisoners), sabotaged the work, and …

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