It was 3:00 in the afternoon on one of the last days of July, 1941 when the men of Block 14 were digging gravel outside the Auschwitz concentration camp.  Suddenly the sirens began to shriek and German sentries shouldered their guns.  There had been an escape.  Silently the men of Block 14 prayed that the escapee had not been from their block.  That evening their worst fears were confirmed.  The missing prisoner had been from Block 14.  The entire camp was punished and received no evening meal, which usually consisted of a dried piece of bread and some cabbage soup or gruel.