The Teacher of Auschwitz

In a place of death, he taught them to live... At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons ; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch. But being a teacher in such a brutal concentration camp was no mean feat. Whether it was begging the SS for better provisions or hiding his homosexuality from his persecutors, he risked his life every day for one thing : to protect the children from the mortal danger they all faced.
Time is running out for Fredy and the children in his care. Can he find a way to teach them the one lesson they really need to know : how to survive ? Based on assiduous research and survivor testimonies, The Teacher of Auschwitz highlights a forgotten war hero who refused to be a bystander to hate. This novel ensures that the name Fredy Hirsch will never be forgotten.