Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival
Many simply incredible tales of survival have come out of the  Nazi death camps, but none more so than this. Kessel, a member  of the French Resistance, was arrested by the SS at age 23. He  was tortured, sent to work in mines, and dumped into a series of  work and death camps. While he was being hung, the rope  miraculously broke, so he was sentenced to be shot. Instead, he  fooled his captors by assuming the identity of another prisoner  and lived to tell the tale.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.