Leo Bretholz

Leo Bretholz. Writer: Leap Into Darkness. Leo Bretholz was a Holocaust survivor who, in 1942, escaped from a train heading for Auschwitz. He escaped seven more times during the Holocaust before finally joining the Jewish Resistance Group Compagnons De France, known as "La Sixieme." He was assigned to Limoges, a city in south-central France where he remained until he departed on a ship for New York on January 19, 1947....