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Title: Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli ISBN: 1-55970-202-8 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An important book that raises questions
Comment: Dr. Miklos Nyiszli has written an important book: not only for the unique first-hand account of a "privileged" inmate in Auschwitz but also for the questions that it raises about Man and humanity.
As a German-trained pathologist Dr. Nyiszli became pathologist under Mengele, performing both antemortem and postmortem examinations of Mengele's experiments. In so doing he lived relatively well: had sufficient food, clothing, and equipment. The question here is this: can we damn a man for taking advantage of an opportunity for better survival through the aid of the captors? Certainly one is quick to condemn the Jewish Kapos that assisted in the management of the other prisoners.
Some have said that Nyiszli aided in the experiments, yet he only performed the post-experiment examinations. Is he then as guilty as Mengele?
This is not an easy book to read: the content is disturbing and the implications of it are hard to grasp. It provides a unique insight into the operation of Auschwitz that is rarely written about in first-hand accounts: the Sonderkommando were regularly gassed, Mengele disappeared.
As a memoire this is excellent. I would like more cross-references to documented events to substantiate the claims. It is not that I disbelieve him, but adding such documentation would improve the historical usefulness.
Rating: 5
Summary: Horrific Eye Witness Account Which Must Be Read!
Comment: I have always had an interest in the Holocaust, but until I read this book some fourteen years ago, it had always remained at a distance.
A reputable colleague at work handed me a copy of this book and said 'this is worth a read'.
Having begun, I could not put the book down. The book gripped me from start to finish. The story is horrific but, nevertheless, it is a story that we all owe it to ourselves to be familiar with.
The story and the author's experiences were so profound and penetrating that I have spent the last fourteen years studying and reading as much about the Holocaust as I can.
I have visited the Concentration Camps at Treblinka, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Plaszov, together with other areas in Poland directly connected with the Jewish Holocaust. I have seen the buildings full of human hair from the Jewish victims, the gas chambers, crematoria and the other hideous instruments of mass murder referred to in this book.
The book by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli will not take you long to finish. The voices of the victims referred to have long since disappeared. Many people today are not even aware of the Holocaust and others deny it's very existence.
Books like these, written by people who were actually there, are essential if our this and forthcoming generations are to be made aware of "man's inhumanity to man" and to prevent such a horror from occurring again.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Eye Opening Reading
Comment: The things this man saw day after day, what he had to do under the terrible circumstances. Heartwrenching, yet something everyone should know in order for this to never be repeated, ever.
It was a well written book, hard to put down. I couldn't even imagine having to live through was he did.
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Title: Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel ISBN: 0140169318 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller, Helmut Freitag, Susanne Flatauer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ISBN: 1566632714 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel ISBN: 0897333764 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the Ss Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss, Steven Paskuly, Andrew Pollinger, Primo Levi, Rudolph Hoss ISBN: 0306806983 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi ISBN: 0684826801 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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