Escape to Life: A Journey through the Holocaust
The Memories of Maria & William Herskovic


By Patricia Herskovic
April 2003
Yad Vashem Jerusalem
Distributed by
ISBN: 9789653081529
217 pages, Illustrated
$26.50 Paper original

---

Caught in the crossfire of Nazi opression, two people triumph in Escape to Life, a trus story of courage, luck and passion, set against the darkest moment of the twentieth century.

After survivng a perilous escape from one of Auschwitz's labor camps, William Herkovic miraculously made his way across Nazi-occupied Europe. Becoming one of the first recorded eyewitnesses of Hitler's atrocities, he alerted the underground, and was eventually credited with the rescue of hundreds, perhaps thousands, bound for gas chambers.

Return to Coronet Books main page