Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Escape of Viktor Pestek and Siegfried Lederer from Auschwitz/archive1

TFA blurb review
Any thoughts or edits? - Dank (push to talk) 14:52, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * See the discussion on the FAC page about changing the name of the article. If someone would do this and then un-break anything that gets broken, I'd appreciate it. But wait until FACbot comes through and promotes this. - Dank (push to talk) 17:24, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Siegfried Lederer escaped from Auschwitz on the night of 5 April 1944, wearing an SS uniform provided by Viktor Pestek, a guard at the concentration camp. Pestek opposed the Holocaust because of his Catholic faith and infatuation with Renée Neumann, a Jewish prisoner. Lederer, a former Czechoslovak Army officer and a Jewish member of the Czech resistance, tried unsuccessfully to warn the Jews at Theresienstadt Ghetto about the mass murders at Auschwitz. After he and Pestek returned to Auschwitz in an attempt to rescue Neumann and her mother, Pestek was arrested and later executed. Lederer returned to occupied Czechoslovakia, where he rejoined the resistance movement and attempted to smuggle a report on Auschwitz to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Switzerland. After the war he remained in Czechoslovakia. The story of the escape was retold by Lederer, historian Erich Kulka, and other writers.