The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)

by Limor Regev

However, when territory changes hands and flies a different flag, it does not necessarily mean that civilians in the area experience a similar change. People’s emotional attachments do not change rapidly and they do not adapt to match the pace of political or international upheaval.

During the war, Buchenwald housed prisoners from dozens of nations, including several future European leaders: one prisoner was Dr. Konrad Adenauer, an anti-Nazi who was mayor of Cologne. After the war, he would become West Germany’s first Chancellor. Prisoner Leon Blum later became Prime Minister of France. The mayor of Prague, Petr Zenkl, was also among the

Buchenwald prisoners.

Years later, I learned that Laser, the boy who smuggled the prayer book out of Auschwitz, was Nobel Peace Prize laureate Eli Wiesel.