Escape from the Ghetto
The Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis
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Narrated by:
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Simon Russell Beale
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By:
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John Carr
About this listen
A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich at all costs.
The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure and the relentless pursuit of life in the face of impossible challenges.
In early 1940, Chaim Herzsman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines.
Chaim avoids grenades and rifle fire on the Russian border, shelters with a German family in the Rhineland, falls in love in occupied France, is captured on a mountain pass in Spain, gets interrogated as a potential Nazi spy in Britain and eventually fights for everything he believes in as part of the British Army. He protects his life by posing as an Aryan boy with a crucifix around his neck and fights for his life through terrible and astonishing circumstances.
Escape from the Ghetto is about a normal boy who faced extermination by the Nazis in the ghetto or a Nazi deathcamp and the extraordinary life he led in avoiding that fate. It's a bittersweet story about epic hope, beauty amidst horror and the triumph of the human spirit.
John Carr is Henry Carr's eldest son, and in Escape from the Ghetto he has re-created his father's incredible adventure through recordings and transcribed conversations in later life.
For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Saboteur of Auschwitz and The Volunteer, this is the incredible true story of escape from the Nazis during World War II.
©2021 John Carr (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedCritic Reviews
"Trust me, this is a great true story." (Ken Follett)
"This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has done an extraordinary and riveting job uncovering the real father behind the dad he thought he knew." (Lord Tony Hall)
"Utterly Compelling. It is an extraordinary tale, brilliantly written." (Alastair Stewart)
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- Anonymous User
- 15-05-2022
Powerful story
Moving story worth listening to We can only imagine what it was like and cannot pass judgment on these people the fact any survived is a miracle in itself
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