Pendu à Auschwitz

"In December, 1944, I was hanged at Auschwitz. The combination of circumstances that saved my life was exceptional, maybe even unique. For on the rare occasions that a rope broke or somehow got untied, the reprieve granted the condemned man was never more than a few hours. The SS never pardoned." This is a Nazi concentration camp story with a difference. Sim Kessel, an ex-boxer, arrested by the SS for his two-year involvement in the French resistance and for being Jewish, was imprisoned in Auschwitz, tortured, and sent to the gas chamber. Saved by a fellow boxer, he escaped but was recaptured, sentenced to be hanged but miraculously lived, and ordered shot--but was saved again.--From publisher description.