Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe

Type

Book

Authors

Bretholz, Leo

ISBN 10

0385497059

ISBN 13

9780385497053

LCCN

199931373

Tags

Jewish, Holocaust, World War II, Memoir, Autobiography

Abstract

Leap Into Darkness is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.

Description

Leap Into Darkness is the gripping, action-packed account of a young boy's series of audacious escapes from the Nazi's Final Solution. 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.

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