Leap Into Darkness is a real life story written by Leo Bretholz.
running for his life and trying to survive the Second World War. He told a great story of his.
personal experiences and how he, a victim of the War, became a survivor. He was a survivor of.
dehumanization and brutal punishing, when living day and night became a brutal challenge, a.
time when souls were lost in a living death.
Leo Bretholz and the people who he writes about had to face many challenges throughout.
the Holocaust. One big challenge that Leo had to overcome was abandoning leaving his mother.
and sisters back in Vienna. His mother insisted that he would leave and try to survive, without.
turning back. Everyday he had to remember leaving them, he often worried and felt bad because.
he never knew what was happening to them. After leaving his family he was off to visit his Aunt.
and Uncle. In order to make it where they had lived he had to swim across a cold river. along.
with crossing the river came the realization that he was always going to be on the run. Along.
with many others, Leo continually moved place to place trying to find safety. He was arrested.
many times and deported to different places. While facing these challenges he had to learn to live.
day to day sometimes with food and sometimes without. If he was lucky he met people who.
became friends and offered their shelter and food to him. Leo had escaped many death trains.
which where leading to concentration camps. On page 210-215 he explained how he was to be.
deported once again. The guards had his records which had stated he escaped many times. They.
were on the look out for him, but once again Leo escaped while the guards were not looking,.
jumping off the train and running fast to the nearby town. As he reached the town he remembered.
a friend of his that had lived across from the market. When Leo arrived his friend Jacques.
allowed him in and put him in hiding for the night. Not only was Leo hunted but he had now put.