The Man with the Miraculous Hands Author:Joseph Kessel The train slowed down and stopped. The cattle wagons opened. 2,700 Jews - men, women and children, skeletons in rags - stumbled out. — This time something was different. This time the dazed prisoners were allowed to walk freely past the SS men, past the closed doors of the gas chambers, across the Swiss frontier to safety and to life. — It was ... more »like a dream.
The man responsible for this miracle, the man who dared to risk his life again and again as an undercover agent for humanity, was Dr. Felix Kersten.