Leap into darkness: seven years on the run in wartime europe - leo bretholz

A harrowing, action-packed account of the authors series of audacious escapes from the Nazis final solution--riveting .

a fascinating and moving piece of history (Library Journal).

A harrowing, action-packed account of the authors 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 boys survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.