At the Buchenwald camp, the unimaginable rescue of three deportees | EUROtoday

Buchenwald was not a camp just like the others. In 2014, the historian Sonia Combe lifted the veil, in One life for an additionalon a observe that has gone underneath the radar: the trade of identities. By devoting herself to the case of a kid, Stefan Jerzy, substituted for a gypsy teenager by the communist administration of the Buchenwald inmates, she documented a little-known phenomenon, the singular complexity of the functioning of this very political camp, the executive interstices of a “gray zone” the place one might, at the price of a recreation of writing, permutations, and caches, save a life on the coronary heart of the Nazi loss of life machine.