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On the night of 5 April 1944, Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew imprisoned at Auschwitz, escaped wearing an SS uniform provided by SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek. Because of his Catholic faith and infatuation with Renée Neumann, a Jewish prisoner, Pestek opposed the Holocaust. He accompanied Lederer out of the camp and the two men traveled together to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in order to obtain false papers for Neumann and her mother. Lederer, a former Czechoslovak Army officer and member of the Czech resistance, attempted to warn the Jews at Theresienstadt concentration camp about the mass murders at Auschwitz, without success. The two returned to Auschwitz in an attempt to rescue Neumann and her mother. Pestek was arrested under disputed circumstances and later executed, while Lederer returned to occupied Czechoslovakia. He rejoined the resistance movement and attempted to smuggle a report on Auschwitz to the Red Cross in Switzerland. After the war he remained in Czechoslovakia and remarried, but he faced antisemitic persecution from the Soviets. He died in Prague in 1972.
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