70 years ago today, two men escaped from Auschwitz. Here’s the true story. (Novel inspired by actual escape at #11 on New York Times bestseller list.)

The least we should learn from the holocaust is that when someone says he is going to kill you, listen to him – take action. Iran has stated many time that she will “wipe Israel off the map.”

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Vrba-Wetzler >> Novel inspired by actual escapes from Auschwitz at #11 on New York Times bestseller list

(Washington, D.C.) — Seventy years ago today, two men pulled off the greatest escape in human history — from a Nazi death camp in southern Poland.

Most of the world doesn’t know their names, but we should.

Rudolf Vrba was only 19 when he escaped Auschwitz. Fred Wetzler was only 25.

They are my heroes. They executed their ingenious plan on April 7th, 1944, and not simply to save their own lives, but to tell the world the truth about what Adolf Hitler was really doing to annihilate the Jewish people. They risked their lives to proclaim the truth, and in the process they helped save more than 100,000  Jewish lives.

It is their stories that inspired me to write The Auschwitz Escape. Now here is a brief version of the true story.

REMEMBERING FOUR HEROES OF THE…

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