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De man die naar Auschwitz wilde

Denis Avey (author), Rob Broomby (author), Rob van Moppes (translator)

Denis Avey, een dappere jonge Britse soldaat, vecht in de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Noord-Afrika. Daar wordt hij in 1944 krijgsgevangen genomen. In het werkkamp in Duitsland waar hij terechtkomt, werkt hij zij aan zij met gevangenen uit het nabijgelegen Auschwitz. Denis is geschokt door de verhalen die hij van hen hoort en voelt het als zijn plicht er met eigen ogen kennis van te nemen en de werel

Title
De man die naar Auschwitz wilde
Author
Denis Avey Rob Broomby
Translator
Rob van Moppes
Language
Dutch
Original language
English
Original title
The man who broke into Auschwitz
Edition
1
Publisher
Vianen: The House of Books, 2014 | Other editions
318 p., [8] p. pl. : ill.
ISBN
9789044332292 (eboek)

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About Denis Avey

Denis Avey (11 January 1919 – 16 July 2015) was a British veteran of the Second World War who was held as a prisoner of war at E715, a subcamp of Auschwitz. While there he saved the life of a Jewish prisoner, Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. For that he was made a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2010.

Another matter is that Avey said that he exchanged uniforms with a Jewish prisoner and smuggled himself into Auschwitz to witness the treatment of Jewish inmates, whose camp was separate from but adjoined that of British POWs. His claim has been challenged. His memoir The Man who Broke into Auschwitz, written with Rob Broomby, was published in 2011.

Life (until retirement)

Avey was born in Essex, England, in 1919. As a boy he learned boxing, was head boy at school and studied at Leyton technical college. He joined…Read more on Wikipedia