The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews
As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.

The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an underground bunker, Auschwitz prisoners Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin escaped and told Jewish leaders what they had seen. Their testimony in early June, 1944, corroborated earlier hard-to-believe reports of mass killing in Auschwitz by lethal gas and provided eyewitness accounts of record daily arrivals of Hungarian Jews meeting the same fate. It was the spark needed to stir a call for action to pressure Hungary’s premier to defy Hitler—just hours before more than 200,000 Budapest Jews were to be deported.
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The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews
As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.

The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an underground bunker, Auschwitz prisoners Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin escaped and told Jewish leaders what they had seen. Their testimony in early June, 1944, corroborated earlier hard-to-believe reports of mass killing in Auschwitz by lethal gas and provided eyewitness accounts of record daily arrivals of Hungarian Jews meeting the same fate. It was the spark needed to stir a call for action to pressure Hungary’s premier to defy Hitler—just hours before more than 200,000 Budapest Jews were to be deported.
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The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews

The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews

by Fred R. Bleakley
The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews

The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews

by Fred R. Bleakley

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As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.

The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an underground bunker, Auschwitz prisoners Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosin escaped and told Jewish leaders what they had seen. Their testimony in early June, 1944, corroborated earlier hard-to-believe reports of mass killing in Auschwitz by lethal gas and provided eyewitness accounts of record daily arrivals of Hungarian Jews meeting the same fate. It was the spark needed to stir a call for action to pressure Hungary’s premier to defy Hitler—just hours before more than 200,000 Budapest Jews were to be deported.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781637582626
Publisher: Wicked Son
Publication date: 04/05/2022
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,019,831
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Fred R. Bleakley is a retired financial editor and writer, having spent most of his career at Business Week, the Institutional Investor, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He was a winner of the John Hancock Insurance Co. Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism, and researched the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry after interviewing Auschwitz escapee Czeslaw Mordowicz for an article in the Wall Street Journal. Bleakley is a graduate of Holy Cross College (BA) and the University of Missouri School of Journalism (MA). He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife Jane Berentson.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 War Comes to Mlawa 1

Chapter 2 Fate Steps In 8

Chapter 3 Life in Auschwitz 19

Chapter 4 Planning an Escape 33

Chapter 5 Hitler vs. Horthy 45

Chapter 6 "Operation Hungary" 61

Chapter 7 The Escape 75

Chapter 8 "All Is Lost" 95

Chapter 9 Mavericks to the Rescue 113

Chapter 10 Showdown in Budapest 126

Chapter 11 A National Disgrace 136

Chapter 12 Return to Auschwitz 150

Epilogue 163

Coda 173

Profiles 179

Afterword 193

Acknowledgments 198

Bibliography 202

Endnotes 206

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