Nazi Concentration Camps: Survivors and Escapees

Only a few decades ago, Adolf Hitler, with the force of his demagogic rhetoric, moved crowds: hate speech can be very powerful. Then, between 1933 and 1945, millions of people were confined in Nazi concentration camps, in terrible conditions, with hunger and disease compounded by abject submission to the most varied types of violence and humiliation, in an atrocious process of profound dehumanisation. The scale of the Nazi abomination, which culminated in gassing and crematoria, is estimated to have resulted in around 11 million deaths in massacres tangential to the Second World War.

This book brings together the stories of human beings who experienced the horrors of the Nazi camps and miraculously survived or even managed to escape. They are people like us, born in Poland, Austria, Germany, but also in improbable places like Brazil or even Portugal. They are Jews, Catholics, Roma... People who were beaten, enslaved, raped, but who, pushing human resistance to unthinkable limits, survived. It is important to remind the world of their stories. So that they are not repeated.