Witness to the truth

Author Nathan Shapell (1922 - 2007) was an American Holocaust survivor, real estate developer and philanthropist. He was 17 when the Germans occupied his hometown in Poland. After managing for months to outwit the Nazis in the Jewish ghettoes, he was finally taken to Auschwitz in the summer of 1943. He survived Auschwitz, death marches and two more concentration camps. At this point, the story he relates in Witness to the Truth begins, with Shapell leading a small group of surviving Jews out of the Russian-occupied zone of Germany, into the American zone (where he helped build housing for homeless Jews) and eventually to the U.S.