THE TEACHER OF AUSCHWITZ: In a Place of Death, He Taught Children How to Live

Novel. Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz--a wooden hut where children wrote poetry and learned about the world. Their teacher, a 27-year-old gay athlete named Fredy Hirsch, knew time was running out and that he must find a way to teach the children how to survive.