"The Auschwitz Escape" by Joel C. Rosenberg

The Auschwitz Escape: by Joel C. Rosenberg | Summary & AnalysisThis is a Summary & Analysis of The Auschwitz Escape: by Joel C. Rosenberg.Readers don't have to already know every detail of the Holocaust to be able to follow "The Auschwitz Escape." Joel C. Rosenberg weaves through fictional characters, real characters, historical events and true locations to provide a tale wrapped in faith, pride, encouragement, detailed planning and true accounts of what political prisoners, Christians and Jewish people endured under the evil eye of the Nazis.Imagine being pulled away from your family, friends, home and all of your personal belongings, put on a train and giving up even the most basic rights to sanitation. That was what author Joel C. Rosenberg helped readers imagine during "The Auschwitz Escape." Trains are sent to Auschwitz, and The Resistance is formed to relentlessly slow down Hitler's plans. Some characters don't make it. A few escape. Many try to help others escape. And there are those who never give up, even when death is looking them in the face.Some books introduce information. Other books try to humanize history so it doesn't just look like a plethora of facts on each page. And others put a reader inside the minds and bodies of those in the book -- bridging facts, fiction and emotions together. "The Auschwitz Escape" succeeded in doing all of the above, and this makes such a hard topic an incredible book to read.