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Leo Bretholz
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Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe |
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English |
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Paperback |
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288 |
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1999-09-14 |
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0385497059 |
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Anchor |
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0.45 pounds |
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5.1 x 8.0 x 0.6 inches |
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1st Anchor Books ed |
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A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal).
Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First he swam the River Sauer at the German-Belgian border. Later he climbed the Alps on feet so battered they froze to his socks--only to be turned back at the Swiss border. He crawled out from under the barbed wire of a French holding camp, and hid in a village in the Pyrenees while gendarmes searched it. And in the dark hours of one November morning, he escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz.
Leap into Darkness is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.
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