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Miracle
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  • Published: 29 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529971057
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $40.00

Miracle

The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz

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28 Jan 2026
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29 Jan 2026
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29 Jan 2026
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28 Feb 2026
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An unforgettable testament to hope and the bonds of brotherhood, Miracle reveals the untold story of the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz, the only known Holocaust survivors to walk away from the jaws of the Nazi killing machine.

An unforgettable testament to hope and the bonds of brotherhood, Miracle reveals the untold story of the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschwitz, the only known Holocaust survivors to walk away from the jaws of the Nazi killing machine.

Early on the morning of October 9, 1944, seven-hundred boys, aged between 13 and 17, were taken out of Block 11 at Auschwitz. The night before, during a visit by Dr Josef Mengele, their identification cards had been stamped with a solitary German word – gestorben – 'died' in English. They were then marched by 25 bayonet-wielding SS men to Crematorium 5, stripped, and herded into a gas chamber.

This book is the story of a true-life miracle of the fifty-one boys who were pulled from that gas chamber – the only Holocaust survivors known to have escaped such a close brush with the Nazi killing machine – and given a second chance at life. A life, of course, that would be so horrifically snatched from those around them.

Based on the first-hand testimonies of six of the boys, six survivors whose stories are shared in this book for the very first time, Miracle interweaves the lives of the boys and the grander sweep of history in which they were held. The result is an unforgettable tale of hope, faith and fortitude in the face of one of the worst crimes against humanity.
  • Published: 29 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529971057
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Michael Calvin

Michael Calvin is an award-winning writer and Sunday Times bestselling author, whose books have been hailed for their insight and influence. He has collaborated with such celebrated sportsmen as Sir Alastair Cook, Dylan Hartley and Gareth Thomas, and is the only writer to win the British Sports Book of the Year award in successive years. Most recently, and in a wider context, he has collaborated on critically acclaimed autobiographies of Toby Gutteridge, a quadriplegic former Special Forces Soldier, and of Josef Lewkowicz, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.
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Praise for Miracle

A dramatic, poignant and astonishing untold story of the Holocaust.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Miracle recounts the evidence, from the standpoint of historically grounded and sound research, of the remarkable story of a unique event - the reprieve of 51 Hungarian Jewish teenagers already naked and trapped inside the gas chambers.

Professor Robert Jan van Pelt

Extraordinary. One of the most haunting episodes of the war.

Daily Mail

Astonishing. A powerful book.

Jewish News

The miracle of the 51 boys who survived the Auschwitz gas chamber.

The Telegraph

The remarkable but harrowing true story of a group of 51 young Jewish boys who survived being sent into the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Very powerful. Extraordinary

Times Radio

Deeply moving

The Jewish Chronicle