thoroughly researched and investigated account of a man who volunteered to be taken into a concentration camp. necessary and timely.

Totally different from the easy to read style of books I like to read for relaxation but oh my, what a read. A well researched put together account of the horrors of Auschwitz from an underground volunteer who entered the horror camp to uncover its true purpose. I have visited this place myself and could clearly visualise it as I read. He uncovers the horrific truth of what is happening here and the writer describes those horrors as they were. Hard to read historic novel but well deserving a place in your library.

What an amazing read about loyalty, perseverance, bravery and dedication to saving a mistreated section of mankind, in this case the innocent victims incarcerated and killed in Auschwitz. It was evident that it is only in the recent past that the full story of Witold, his family and his experiences could be told to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the ‘death camp’. His story brings to the reader the full impact of what went on in Auschwitz that I have never read before but having visited 3 sites of NAZI atrocities I was brought closer to the “inhumanity to man” that occurred within living memory.
In the latter part of the story after Witold had escaped (a story in itself) the double standards of allegiances of the Polish underground in Warsaw was another revelation that has at last been revealed in the West and explains the evolution of Poland from German occupation to Soviet domination to a free country aligned to the West today. I had great sympathy with Witold and his family over the way the underground dealt with him at the end and he most certainly did not deserve the execution that was handed out. His recognition as a Hero of Poland is well deserved.