Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe Monday, August 3 2009.

• A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's 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 boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Leo Bretholz: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe Thursday, July 16 2009.

• I SAW ADOLF HITLER with my own eyes from a distance of perhaps twenty yards.