Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
“The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.”—The New York Review of BooksWhen the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform...
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“The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.”—The New York Review of BooksWhen the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781611450118 (161145011X)
ASIN: 161145011X
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Pages no: 222
Edition language: English
This one should be the longest and most difficult read for me, yet the simplest fact that it is a true story makes it the best read of mine so far of the year. Even after finishing it gave me shivers almost the whole night, and i kept on asking myself:0 was life so cheap for third reich to throw an...
The writing style is very bare-bones, pared down, and concise. Nyiszli recounts his experiences in a detached, almost emotionless-seeming way, and this approach serves to highlight the atrocities and horror of the concentration camps by dint of the very factual, almost scientific approach. It's a mu...
Totally amazing read. I had so many bookmarks in the ebook as I was constantly putting the book down and reflecting upon what Miklos had written down about his experience. Having heard so much about what had happened during this timeframe from other stories and accounts, reading this book gave me m...
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