Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts... At the dark heart of the Holocaust
there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons a place where children sang
staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside but still in the shadow of the chimneys they
were given better food kept free of vermin and were even taught meditation to imagine full
stomachs and a day without fear. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish
prisoner named Fredy Hirsch. But being a teacher in such a brutal concentration camp was no
mean feat.. Whether it was begging the SS for better provisions or hiding his homosexuality
from his persecutors he risked his life every day for one thing: to protect the children from
the mortal danger they all faced. Time is running out for Fredy and the hundreds of children
in his care. Can he find a way to teach them the one lesson they really need to know: how to
survive? Assiduously researched and drawn from archives and survivor testimonies historian
and biographer Wendy Holden tells the inspirational and uplifting true story of Fredy Hirsch:
The Teacher of Auschwitz.
