Voices from the Fortress

Voices from the Fortress

Paul Rea uncovered the extraordinary story of an Australian ex-prisoner of war who had been illegally thrown into a Nazi Concentration camp called the Small Fortress of Terezin in Czechoslovakia, known as the ‘Living Grave’. An investigation tracked down more than a dozen Australian and New Zealand veterans who broke a long silence to speak of their horrendous ordeals Voices from the Fortress tells the survivors’ stories of escape and daring, inhuman treatment at the hands of the Gestapo and their long fight for recognition at home.