Avey, Denis

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Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labour camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp - known as Auschwitz III - to witness firsthand the cruelty there

The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to a POW work camp. He was put to work every day in a German factory, where he labored alongside Jewish prisoners from a nearby camp called Auschwitz. The stories they told him were …