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<p><P>A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution&#151;&quot;riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history&quot; (<i>Library Journal</i>).<P>Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First he swam the River Sauer at the German-Belgian border. Later he climbed the Alps on feet so battered they froze to his socks&#151;only to be turned back at the Swiss border. He crawled out from under the barbed wire of a French holding camp, and hid in a village in the Pyrenees while gendarmes searched it. And in the dark hours of one November morning, he escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz. <P><b>Leap into Darkness</b> is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Bretholz was 17 when, in 1938, the Germans took over his native Austria. His mother, more realistic than other relatives, sa

Author

Bretholz, Leo, 1921-2014; Olesker, Michael

Publisher

Bretholz, Leo/ Olesker, Michael; Anchor

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781891521034

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (851 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14