Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account (1960)

Heartbreaking

Another account of this man's experience during the holocaust. So many events are the same and it is very interesting to read others accounts. Difficult to read as the author is very honest and open. ( )

Auschwitz is the first book I've read on WW2. I only barely knew what the camp was and what it did people. This is a very heavy read that describes, often in detail, the inhuman extermination of human life. It describes what life was like in Auschwitz, and what meant to be a prisoner there.

I think this book gave me enough context to get started on more book around the camp and WW II. ( )

A Jewish medical doctor working with Mengele in a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz. Ai, yi, yi. Just simply excellent. ( )

Horrifying. Hard to read without taking breaks. I've read both historical fiction and true accounts about the horrors of Hitler's regime. It's hard to separate the fact from fiction. All of it too surreal and terrible to comprehend.

è un saggio storico in forma di libro autobiografico scritto dal medico di nazionalità ebraica Miklós Nyiszli poco dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale, con l'intento di raccontare le atrocità a cui aveva assistito da deportato all'interno del campo di Auschwitz. Pietra miliare della letteratura e della testimonianza concentrazionaria, il libro fu pubblicato per la prima volta in lingua ungherese nel 1946 e successivamente ha avuto traduzioni in varie lingue. (fonte: Wikipedia)