Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385497053)

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.

Author: Leo Bretholz, Michael Olesker
ISBN-10: 0385497059
ISBN-13: 9780385497053
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 09/14/1999
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d