Sam Pivnik, Survivor: the Death March, and My Fight for Freedom’ (2016)

On 14 different occasions Pivnik cheated death. A survivor of two ghettos, Auschwitz and slave labour in a mine, Pivnik endured a death march and was one of just a handful of people who swam to shore after the prison ship Cap Ancona was bombed by the RAF. He eventually made his way to London, where he found people were too preoccupied with their wartime experiences in the Blitz to care what had happened to him.