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Denis Avey - The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

2012-09-25

The video clip displays an interview with Denis Avey, a British soldier from the Second World War. Uploaded on YouTube 14th March 2011.

This incredible story is about one soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

According to Wikipedia, Denis Avey was born 1919 and is a veteran of the Second World War. He was held as a prisoner of war at a camp adjacent to Monowitz.

In 2010 he received the British Hero of the Holocaust award for having saved the life of a Jewish prisoner by smuggling cigarettes to him. He is author with Rob Broomby of The Man who Broke into Auschwitz, published in 2011, in which he describes how he exchanged uniforms with a Jewish prisoner to smuggle himself into Auschwitz III/Monowitz.

After being retaken prisoner, he was moved to a POW labor camp for British soldiers near Auschwitz III, a German concentration camp, where he was kept imprisoned from 1943 until April, 1945. During his time in the camp he managed to befriend a Jewish inmate of Auschwitz III, Ernst Lobethal.

He obtained cigarettes from Ernst's sister in Britain, which he secretly passed to Ernst. Avey says that on two separate occasions while at Auschwitz, he exchanged uniforms with another Jewish prisoner and smuggled himself into Auschwitz III in order to witness first hand, conditions inside the prison, with a view to testifying after the war.

Avey explains: "I knew I had to bear witness. As Albert Einstein said: the world can be an evil place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. I’ve never been one to do nothing."

Avey describes the events in detail in the book, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz (2011). The book was promoted by the Holocaust Educational Trust whose support Avey acknowledged, and had been published in 14 countries as of May, 2011.

What happened to the Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal? Did Denis Avey and Ernst Lobethal ever meet again? BBC wrote in an article Sunday, 29th November 2009: "Denis Avey is a remarkable man by any measure." Read this full story on BBC: The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz.

Stein Morten Lund, 25h September 2012 

Read more about Auschwitz on our global travelguide Travel Explorations.

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