Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

· Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
4.6
301 reviews
Ebook
240
Pages

About this ebook

When 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.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
301 reviews
Tanja Smith
January 29, 2018
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
July 31, 2018
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
February 17, 2017
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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About the author

Miklos Nyiszli was a Jewish prisoner/doctor along with his wife and young daughter, who was transported to Auschwitz in June 1944. He died in 1956.

Richard Seaver was a publisher, editor, and translator. He passed away in 2009.

Bruno Bettelheim was a child psychologist and writer of international renown. He passed away in 1990.

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