"At 6 P.M. on April 7th, 1944 sirens shrieked continuously as two prisoners escaped from Auschwitz. Once free, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler wrote a report that detailed -- for the first time -- the mechanics of the Nazi Death Factory. The report -- known now as the Vrba-Wetzler Report on the Auschwitz Protocols -- warned the world that the Nazis were preparing to kill nearly 800,000 Hungarian Jews. The report was smuggled to Switzerland and eventually reached the U.S. State Department, the Vatican, and the British Embassy in Berlin. I Escaped from Auschwitz is the first-hand account of his daring escape. It also includes the full text of the Auschwitz Protocols which is considered by many to be one of the most important documents of the twentieth century. The subsequent handling and mishandling of the report contained in this book has marred history forever." --

A Holocaust survivor recounts her journey to her family's hometown of Šamorín, Slovakia, to exhume the bodies of her grandparents from a Jewish cemetery that would soon be flooded by a new dam on the Danube River, and take the bodies to Israel for reburial.

"Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992-1993. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak Republic from 1918-1939 and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of Communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject"--Provided by publisher.