Seniors Maddie Moats, Caroline Wilburn and junior Christi Norris discuss WWII hero Charles Coward, nicknamed the “count of Auschwitz.” A British soldier, Coward was taken as a prisoner of war by the Nazi’s and made several escapes. After being exposed to the conditions of Jewish prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz, he smuggled Jews out of Auschwitz and sent codes back to Britain detailing what he witnessed at the death camp, all while still being a prisoner himself. Coward named one of the Righteous Among Nations and named a British hero of the Holocaust in 2010, 34 years after his death. 

Topics Covered: 

WWII

Nazi Germany

Auschwitz

POW camps

Righteous Among the Nations

Holocaust