THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A dramatic poignant and astonishing untold story of
the Holocaust.' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'Extraordinary. One of the most haunting episodes of
the war.' DAILY MAIL 'The remarkable story of a unique event - the reprieve of 51 Hungarian
Jewish teenagers already naked and trapped inside the gas chambers.' PROFESSOR ROBERT JAN VAN
PELT An unforgettable testament to hope and the bonds of brotherhood Miracle reveals the
untold story of the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz the only known group of
Holocaust survivors to walk away from the jaws of the Nazi killing machine. Early on the
morning of October 10 1944 eight-hundred boys aged between 13 and 17 were taken out of
Block 11 at Auschwitz. The night before during a visit by Dr Josef Mengele their
identification cards had been stamped with a solitary German word - gestorben - 'died' in
English. They were then marched by 25 bayonet-wielding SS men to Crematorium 5 stripped and
herded into a gas chamber. This book is the story of a true-life miracle of the fifty-one boys
who were pulled from that gas chamber - the only Holocaust survivors known to have escaped such
a close brush with the Nazi killing machine - and given a second chance at life. A life of
course that would be so horrifically snatched from those around them. Based on the first-hand
testimonies of six of the boys six survivors whose stories are shared in this book for the
very first time Miracle interweaves the lives of the boys and the grander sweep of history in
which they were held. The result is an unforgettable tale of hope faith and fortitude in the
face of one of the worst crimes against humanity. 'Astonishing. A powerful book.' JEWISH NEWS
' The remarkable but harrowing true story. Extraordinary. ' TIMES RADIO
