Hanged at Auschwitz

July 15, 2002
Many simply incredible tales of survival have come out of the Nazi death camps, but none more so than this. Kessel, a member of the French Resistance, was arrested by the SS at age 23. He was tortured, sent to work in mines, and dumped into a series of work and death camps. While he was being hung, the rope miraculously broke, so he was sentenced to be shot. Instead, he fooled his captors by assuming the identity of another prisoner and lived to tell the tale.

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