Leap into Darkness
Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe
Baltimore, Md. : Woodholme House Publishers, [1999]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis -- not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing wartorn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First Leo swam the flooded 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 labor camp and hid in the Pyrenees, while gendarmes searched the village where he had found a temporary sanctuary. 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.
Subjects:
Bretholz, Leo, 1921-2014.
Jews -- Persecutions -- Austria -- Vienna.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Personal narratives.
Vienna (Austria) -- Ethnic relations.
France -- Ethnic relations.
Bretholz, Leo, 1921-2014.
Jews -- Persecutions -- Austria -- Vienna.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Personal narratives.
Vienna (Austria) -- Ethnic relations.
France -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN:
1891521039 (alk. paper)
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BIOGRAPHY Bretholz, Leo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |