Denis Avey

Rob Broomby

Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labour camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp - known as Auschwitz III - to witness firsthand the cruelty there

The Man who Broke Into Auschwitz

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story - a tale as gripping as it is moving - which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.

The Extraordinary True Story

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

Autobiografie van een Britse militair die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog als krijgsgevangene in Polen met een joodse gevangene van plaats wisselt en zo in Auschwitz ooggetuige is van de Holocaust.

De man die naar Auschwitz wilde

Auschwitz. Ero il numero 220543

For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, After Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story - a tale as gripping as it is moving - which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.

'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz' is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp.

Rob Broomby

About

Books

Join the club