Tanja Smith
Well written and concise. The depths of human cruelty cannot truly be understood unless you were there. The author really makes the reader feel the agony of the moment. It's a tragic story with a satisfying ending. There are not enough prayers I could say for all the souls that perished. We must retell the horrible stories to keep it from happening again.
Brett Stalsby
I warn anyone before reading this book that it is one of the darkest eye
witness accounts you'll ever read. It was both hard to stomach the stories
told and impossible to put down. This account will be hard to read if you
have any humanity in you whatsoever, but it needs to be told. Very
fascinating. It should be required reading to those of appropriate age. Not
a book for children or those with a weak stomach.
Deborah Ratliff
I could not put this book down. The shear pain and suffering and indignities described in Nyiszli's account of Auschwitz drove me to research and discuss this book for weeks. His writing is clear, emotional and descriptively concise in the events that he experienced during his entire time under the captivity of the German exterminators. Very little distracted his accounts of daily life and details of what he witnessed from morning until night for months and months with almost certain death looming at every turn. He methodically worked in sincerity to his ideals, breaking down only when he realized that he had traded his God given skills over to the meniacle wishes of Dr. Mengele. A Life changing read.
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