Auschwitz ordeal bared
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April 3, 2011, Sunday
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A BRITISH prisoner of war has described how he struck up a forbidden friendship with a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and then swapped places with him briefly to see first hand how Jewish inmates were starved and tortured inside the notorious Nazi camp.
Denis Avey, 92, said on Friday he was caught by German soldiers while fighting in north Africa and was taken to a camp near Auschwitz before meeting Jewish prisoners with whom they worked at a nearby factory run by Germans.
Avey discreetly struck up a friendship with a Jewish prison called Hans. The two agreed to swap places since Avey said he wanted to see the inmates' plight for himself.
Avey said he shaved his head, smeared dirt on his face, and switched clothes with Hans in a shed at the end of the working day, before he joined other Jewish prisoners in their walk back to Auschwitz after a day in the factory before spending the night there. The next morning he walked back out to the factory, and swapped clothes with Hans in the hut. He said he did this twice.
Avey published his story this week in a book called "The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz" where he talks of how he was held at a POW compound called E715.
Denis Avey, 92, said on Friday he was caught by German soldiers while fighting in north Africa and was taken to a camp near Auschwitz before meeting Jewish prisoners with whom they worked at a nearby factory run by Germans.
Avey discreetly struck up a friendship with a Jewish prison called Hans. The two agreed to swap places since Avey said he wanted to see the inmates' plight for himself.
Avey said he shaved his head, smeared dirt on his face, and switched clothes with Hans in a shed at the end of the working day, before he joined other Jewish prisoners in their walk back to Auschwitz after a day in the factory before spending the night there. The next morning he walked back out to the factory, and swapped clothes with Hans in the hut. He said he did this twice.
Avey published his story this week in a book called "The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz" where he talks of how he was held at a POW compound called E715.
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