Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz
On the night of 5 April 1944, Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp wearing an SS uniform provided by SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek. Pestek opposed the Holocaust; he was a devout Catholic and was infatuated with Renée Neumann, a Jewish prisoner. He accompanied Lederer out of the camp, and the two men traveled together to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to obtain false documents for Neumann and her mother.
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Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz
On the night of 5 April 1944, Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp wearing an SS uniform provided by SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek. Pestek opposed the Holocaust; he was a devout Catholic and was infatuated with Renée Neumann, a Jewish prisoner. He accompanied Lederer out of the camp, and the two men traveled together to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to obtain false documents for Neumann and her mother.
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Lederer reports to the Theresienstadt leaders about Auschwitz
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Pestek executed for favoring inmates and desertion
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Gate of the "family camp" at Auschwitz II–Birkenau
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Pestek's and Lederer's travels
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1944-04-05
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Plzeň
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Prague
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Písařova Vesce
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Zbraslav
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Viktor Pestek, Siegfried Lederer
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Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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East Upper Silesia
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Nazi Germany
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Lederer freed
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Night
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On the night of 5 April 1944, ...... ts for Neumann and her mother.
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