Miracle: The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber at Auschwitz

<strong>The untold story of the only known Holocaust survivors to walk out of the gas chambers in Auschwitz and their remarkable second chance at life</strong><br /><br />Early on the morning of October 9, 1944, seven hundred boys between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, were taken out of Block 11 at Auschwitz. The night before, during a visit by Dr. Josef Mengele, their identification cards had been stamped with a solitary word—<em>gestorben</em>—German for “died.” They were then marched by twenty-five bayonet-wielding SS guards to Crematorium 5, stripped, and herded into a gas chamber.<br /><br />This book is the story of a true-life miracle about the fifty-one boys who were pulled from that gas chamber—the only Holocaust survivors known to have escaped such a close brush with the Nazi killing machine—and given a second chance at life. A life, of course, that would be so horrifically snatched from those around them.<br /><br />Based on first-hand testimonies from six of the boys, six survivors whose stories are shared in this book for the very first time, <em> The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber at Auschwitz </em>is an unforgettable testament to hope and the bonds of brotherhood in the face of one of the worst crimes against humanity.