The Auschwitz Protocols, Fred R. Bleakley
The Auschwitz Protocols, Fred R. Bleakley
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The Auschwitz Protocols
Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews

Author: Fred R. Bleakley

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/05/2022


Synopsis

As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.

The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an underground bunker, Auschwitz prisoners Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin escaped and told Jewish leaders what they had seen. Their testimony in early June, 1944, corroborated earlier hard-to-believe reports of mass killing in Auschwitz by lethal gas and provided eyewitness accounts of record daily arrivals of Hungarian Jews meeting the same fate. It was the spark needed to stir a call for action to pressure Hungary's premier to defy Hitler—just hours before more than 200,000 Budapest Jews were to be deported.

About Fred R. Bleakley

Fred R. Bleakley is a retired financial editor and writer, having spent most of his career at Business Week, the Institutional Investor, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He was a winner of the John Hancock Insurance Co. Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism, and researched the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry after interviewing Auschwitz escapee Czeslaw Mordowicz for an article in the Wall Street Journal. Bleakley is a graduate of Holy Cross College (BA) and the University of Missouri School of Journalism (MA). He lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kuszma on May 30, 2024

Sajátosan kétarcú könyv. Jelentős része alaposan megadatolt szakirodalom az auschwitzi halálgyárról, pontosabban az „Auschwitz-jegyzőkönyv” nevű dokumentumról, ami négy szökevény tanúvallomásán alapult, és amelynek komoly szerepe volt abban, hogy a szélesebb közönség is megismerte a nácik felmérhete......more

Goodreads review by Ian on October 11, 2022

This is a brief but informative account on how the world was made aware of the horrors of Auschwitz. This story seems to habe the purpose to set the record straight in regards to the second set of escapees and what the role they had in confirming and expanding the first reports.......more

Goodreads review by James on August 25, 2023

An important and riviting book!......more