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The horrors of the Holocaust are recalled in this chilling historical novel.

 

The story focuses on a naive SS officer named Blaz Schaffer, who is assigned guard duty at Auschwitz in Poland in 1944 after suffering an injury in battle. While stationed at the camp, he visits Solahütte, a nearby resort for German personnel, and he falls in love with Sara, a worker at the lodge.

 

Schaffer clashes with his fellow soldiers over their ruthless treatment of the camp prisoners, particularly the head guard, Wilhelm Gratzfirmer, a psychopathic Nazi who enjoys torturing and murdering the captives. He also runs afoul of Dr. Joseph Mengele, the notorious camp doctor who decides the fates of the prisoners as they arrive at the camp. As his injury heals and his time at the camp nears its end, Schaffer makes a fateful decision that changes the lives of those around him.

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Educational Information about the Holocaust 

The Holocaust was one of the darkest events in human history. Experts estimate that nearly 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi's, while millions more from other ethnic and social groups were also slaughtered. 

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We must all remember what happened during the Holocaust and work to prevent it from every happening again. 

Karl Hoecker Album

In 2006, photographs taken by SS officer Karl Hoecker during WWII were donated to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by a former U.S. officer who discovered them. They showed disturbing images of German personnel from the nearby camp Auschwitz lounging at a resort named Solahütte.

 

This collection inspired the novel Solahütte.    

Below is more information about the Holocaust. Click on the links and share this information with those you love. 

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https://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust-encyclopedia    

 

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust 

 

http://remember.org/educate/mtimeline   

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16690175 

 

http://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust   

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About the Author

About the Author

Steven Donahue was a copywriter for TV Guide magazine for 14 years. His first novel, Amanda Rio, was published in 2004. He released three novels in 2013: The Manila Strangler (Rainstorm Press), Amy the Astronaut and the Flight for Freedom (Hydra Publications), and Comet and Cupid’s Christmas Adventure (Createspace). His fifth novel, Chasing Bigfoot (Createspace) was published in 2014, and his short story Grit was also included in the anthology Hero’s Best Friend by Seventh Star Press in 2014. In 2015, he published his sixth book, Where Freedom Rings: A Tale of the Underground Railroad (Createspace).

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