Title: The seventh cross
First published: 1942
Description: Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist, Heisler, survives, not by cunning or superior skill, but through the complicity of a web of common citizens unwilling to bow to the Gestapo and forced to make decisions that will determine the character of their future lives.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Concentration camp escapes, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, World War, 1939-1945, Concentration camp inmates, Fiction, historical, general, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Germany, fiction
Places: Germany
Time periods: 1933-1945