I am the adult child of parents who both fought in WWII MY father was a second generation Pole and my mother English As a child I was fascinated by the Anne Frank story My mother told many stories of the Blitzkrieg in London Now we are in times where people are being exterminated like so many in Hitler s time I want to learn from the lessons of the past and pray others do the same to stop the insanity Kindle Edition well written story of heroism and the importance of not judging the other until you ve stepped into his or her shoes Kindle Edition How does a Jew living in the United States at the outbreak of WWII end up being the warden in the most notorious Nazi concentration camp Yakov Kozalchik was better known as The Warden of the Block of Death What was he doing at Auschwitz Why did the governments of Poland and Czechoslovakia request his extradition And why was no tombstone erected to honor him Fifty years after Kozalchik s passing.

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Brigadier General res Amir Haskel a pilot in the Israeli Air Force and a researcher of the Holocaust begins exploring the amazing life story of Kozalchik Little by little he uncovers the hidden and unheralded actions of this larger than life Jew As Haskel digs deeper he realizes that the man who many called The Hangman was in fact a hero Brigadier General res Amir Haskel born in 1953 is one of the founders of the Witnesses in Uniform mission which brings IDF soldiers and officers to Poland to commemorate and learn about the Holocaust Since retiring from military service in 2003 he has delved into Holocaust research and has guided IDF delegations to Poland Holocaust Stories The Warden of Block 11 Holocaust Books .

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A good read.A good read