THE MAGICIAN OF AUSCHWITZ

J.R. DOS SANTOS

A Jewish magician crosses paths with a Portuguese SS soldier and a young Russian woman in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Prague, 1939. Nazi Germany invade Czechoslovakia. Jewish magician Herbert Levin, the Great Nivelli, is deported with his family, first to the Terezin ghetto and then to a large camp in Poland.
Leningrad siege, 1943. Portuguese legionnaire Francisco Latino battles with the Spanish Blue Division against the Red Army. He falls for a Russian girl, Tanusha, but she is taken by the SS. To save her, he joins the Nazi elite force and is sent to the camp where she is kept in Poland.
Thus the Portuguese soldier, the Russian girl and the Jewish magician share the same destiny. Auschwitz. They must cooperate to survive, but the plot thickens when the death camp prisoners organize a major uprising and the magician is drawn to the heart of it. Can magic save them all ?

- The novels are based on manuscripts and testimonies found in concentration camps. José Rodrigues dos Santos' work is the result of a large research, and feature historical characters, including the main character Herbert Levin, SS soldiers and people from the Sonderkommando.
- The Magician of Auschwitz and The Birkenau Scrolls show us the Shoah as it has never been told. Based on true events and real characters, José Rodrigues dos Santos' riveting novels take us to the darkest place on Earth and unveil unknown episodes of the Holocaust, including the role esotericism and mysticism played in the Final Solution, as well as a largely unknown event: the prisoner revolt at Birken.

José Rodrigues dos Santos is a TV anchor, and one of the bestselling novelists in Portugal. He is the author of seven essays and twenty-two novels which sold over 3 million copies. José's fiction is published or is about to be published in 20 languages.