Als Kanada in Auschwitz lag · Meine Flucht aus dem Vernichtungslager

April 7, 1944–Alarm sirens announce the escape of two Slovak prisoners from a heavily-guarded camp in Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rodolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, succeed and flee more than one hundred miles to give the first graphic and exact descriptions of the operations at Auschwitz, which up to that point had only been heard about as unverifiable rumours. Their report, first published in Swiss and then in the western press, made the reality of Nazi annihilation camps explicit and unequivocal to Pope Pius XII, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I Cannot Forgive gives a masterly portrayal of the human factors behind the initial report of the terrors of Auschwitz. Few will able to read this account of the gigantic and inhumane machine of death which the German Reich set up without feeling profound emotion. Many have found in it a remarkable and deeply personal story of heroism and determination in the face of seemingly hopeless odds.