Warminster Author Pens Novel About the Holocaust

The book focuses on a naive SS officer named Blaz Schaffer, who is assigned guard duty at Auschwitz in Poland in 1944 after suffering an injury in battle. While stationed at the camp, he visits Solahütte, a nearby resort for German personnel, and he falls in love with Sara, a worker at the lodge.

Schaffer clashes with his fellow soldiers over their ruthless treatment of the camp prisoners, particularly the head guard, Wilhelm Gratzfirmer, a psychopathic Nazi who enjoys torturing and murdering the captives. He also runs afoul of Dr. Joseph Mengele, the notorious camp doctor who decides the fates of the prisoners as they arrive at the camp. As his injury heals and his time at the camp nears its end, Schaffer makes a fateful decision that changes the lives of those around him.

The book was inspired by WWII photographs of Solahütte that were taken by SS Officer Karl Hoecker, and later donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by a former US military officer who discovered them.

The author is currently seeking a publisher for his book. He has created a grass roots campaign to publicize the book, including a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcJc9_ta94g with details about the official website https://writersd56.wixsite.com/solahutte where fans can reach out to publishers by email.

Steven Donahue was a copywriter for TV Guide magazine for 14 years. His first novel, Amanda Rio, was published in 2004. He had three novels released in 2013: The Manila Strangler (Rainstorm Press), Amy the Astronaut and the Flight for Freedom (Hydra Publications), and Comet and Cupid’s Christmas Adventure (Createspace). In 2015, his historical novel Where Freedom Rings: A Tale of the Underground Railroad (Createspace) was published.

Contact: Steven Donahue at writersd56@live.com.