Voice, silence and memory: the escape from Auschwitz and the Israeli historiography

The truth about Auschwitz was one of the most guarded secrets of the architects of the Final Solution. Only five Jewish inmates succeeded to escape and survive the war to tell their stories. On April 5 1944, Lederer escaped and risked his life when he sneaked into Theresienstadt to warn the Jews about their impending fate. Two days later Vrba and Wetzler escaped, and their account was the first document by Auschwitz inmates to reach the free world