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Relates the experiences of photographer Wilhelm Brasse who was sent to Auschwitz to record the camp's atrocities, faked documents for prisoners, smuggled photos to the outside world, and, when the war ended, refused to destroy his records.

"Early in the morning of November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had not been felled by Jews, but rather by the ruthless architect of mass genocide, SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades"--Provided by publisher.

Reveals the secret Nazi plot to counterfeit British pounds and scatter the all over the United Kingdom in the hopes of destabilizing the British economy and how the Jewish prisoners whom the Nazis found to create the counterfeit bills helped stop the plot.

Memoir of a Hungarian woman who was imprisoned for several years in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.

"Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to the event known as the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.