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The Great Papago Escape was the largest Axis prisoner-of-war escape to occur from an American facility during World War II. On the night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp Papago Park , near Phoenix , Arizona , and fled into the surrounding desert.
RELATED: Holocaust Remembrance Day On April 15, 1944, that group attempted to flee through the tunnel, but only 12 are said to have made it through alive, reports the New York Times .
The book was coauthored by Elisabeth B. Leyson and Holocaust scholar Dr. Marilyn J. Harran. [28] [29] The title came from Leyson, at age 13, needing to stand on a wooden box to reach the machinery in the factory at Brünnlitz. [30] The book was successful, becoming a New York Times Best Seller. [31] It also won a Christopher Award.
The book was published in 1950. Brickhill, an Australian journalist before and after the war, had previously written four different accounts of the story, first as a BBC media talk / interview, then as newspaper and Reader's Digest magazine articles, and in the 1946 book Escape to Danger which he co-wrote with Conrad Norton. By the time four ...
She has written two books: “The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir, ” about her father’s experience in the Holocaust, and “Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust ...
Thomas "Toivi" Blatt (born Tomasz Blatt; April 15, 1927 – October 31, 2015) was a Holocaust survivor, [2] writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943.
The book was published in 2019, a full 74 years after the Holocaust ended. Part of the reason this story took so long to be revealed, Dune Macadam tells me, is that tales of teen girls weren’t ...
The One Thousand Children (OTC) [1] [2] is a designation, created in 2000, which is used to refer to the approximately 1,400 Jewish children who were rescued from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied or threatened European countries, and who were taken directly to the United States during the period 1934–1945.