The last part of the book deals with Vrba’s somewhat troubled post war life as a biochemist and estranged father of 2 daughters. What happened during the time of the Holocaust should always be remembered so that they never happen again.

Lederer said Pestek had left some valuables with a Polish girlfriend in Myslowitz and that she reported him when he tried to retrieve them. Almost all the Jews who were deported to the family camp in May 1944 were unaware of Lederer's previous visit to Theresienstadt, and the few who had access to Lederer's reports made no effort to avoid deportation. Music Industry Still a ‘Boys’ Club’ While Female Artists Face Misogyny, Harassment and Abuse, Finds U.Kárný, who felt that Lederer's actions needed no embellishment, found that Lederer and the Czech journalist Eduard Kotora, who publicized the former's actions, exaggerated them. He starts with a claim that is the easiest ever to disprove: he asserts that Rudi Vrba was the first Jew to escape from Auschwitz. According to psychologist Ruth Linn, Pestek may have helped Lederer in an attempt to distance himself from Nazi crimes because his home in Bukovina had been recently occupied by the advancing Red Army. Other factors helped too: fitness, intelligence, adaptability, usefulness about the camp, sturdy footwear.

There is no evidence the report reached its destination, or even that Lederer sent it as he described. Kárný concludes that the conflicting accounts make it impossible to know what happened, and he is convinced Lederer's account is not accurate. Among them were Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who refused the offer because they believed it was a trick, and advised other prisoners not to trust Pestek.

The work in Kanada was meticulous; even toothpaste tubes were squeezed out in case diamonds had been secreted inside.

Great book describing the horror of Auschwitz camp and the extremes that the Nazi's went to with their cruelty towards other human beings. He arranged for Neumann to get a job as a block clerk and offered to help her escape by disguising her as an SS woman. This book is so good it is one do those very rare novels you quite literally can not bring yourself to put down, but also simultaneously can almost not bear to turn the page!

Veselý told Lederer how to avoid the sentries, taking advantage of a security vulnerability around a hospital located outside the ghetto's perimeter. Die Theresienstädter Herbsttransporte 1944 [ The Transports from Theresienstadt in Autumn 1944] (in German). He met the widow of Werner, Pestek's SS colleague who was killed in action in Belarus, and gave her some of Werner's personal possessions that had ended up in Pestek's hands. With the help of a Czech gendarme, he smuggled himself into the ghetto to warn an engineer who was a friend of his, probably Julius Grünberger. Vrba memorized everything he could about the prisoners, practices and routines of the concentration camp.