At its height in 1944, the Esterwegen concentration camp housed over two thousand political prisoners from occupied Europe.
Years of painstaking research and translation have yielded, for the first time, a comprehensive telling of these events for English read.
In the midst of these terrible conditions, they came together to form the secret Masonic Lodge Libert ch rie.
Among them was a small band of Belgian Freemasons who, by chance or providence, found themselves assigned to the same barrack.
At its height in 1944, the Esterwegen concentration camp housed over two thousand political prisoners from occupied Europe