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Summary: A Captivating read with an astonishing reality!
Review: I want go into great detail like a lot of the reviews here do. When I starting reading this book I just couldn't put it down! I eventually had to because my eyes and back grew uncomfortable to the chair that I was in. Let me just say that after you put this book down it seems to play like a movie in your head. This is something you don't find too often in Non-Fiction books, which seem to be my thing, particularly the subjects on The Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust. I urge anyone who is interested in studying, or reading about the Holocaust, to put this on your list of books to read.
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Summary: Frighteningly Real
Review: I was very thankful for the insight provided by Dr. Nyiszli, and horrified at the experiences he accounted for. I wrote a term paper using this book as a resource. Unfortunately Dr. Nyiszli has proven to be a very trustworthy source to recount holocaust fact. Truly a tragedy has befallen us all.
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Summary: A fine read
Review: I would actually give this book 4 1/2 stars, but that's not an option.What could be more realistic than terror through the eyes of a person who lived it? As one reads the book, it's difficult to understand that such a thing really happened. It's a fairly short book, but it tells enough to get its point across. It's not a history of Auschwitz. It is simply one man's experiences while trying to survive. I certainly don't blame him for his part in the cruelties. He did what he had to do to live, day by day. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the cruelties inflicted upon the "undesirables" of Europe.
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Summary: A fine read
Review: I would actually give this book 4 1/2 stars, but that's not an option. What could be more realistic than terror through the eyes of a person who lived it? As one reads the book, it's difficult to understand that such a thing really happened. It's a fairly short book, but it tells enough to get its point across. It's not a history of Auschwitz. It is simply one man's experiences while trying to survive. I certainly don't blame him for his part in the cruelties. He did what he had to do to live, day by day. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the cruelties inflicted upon the "undesirables" of Europe.
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Summary: Excellent;shocking...
Review: I've got an older version of this book, simply titled "Auschwitz," which I assume is the same title.
The book was written by a Jewish doctor who became a member of the "Sondercommando," a group of people at Auschwitz who helped the Nazis run the camp.
In the version I have (older and OOP), the book starts with a disclaimer by Dr. Nyiszli stating that he's not a professional writer, simply reporting as an eyewitness. Yet his writing style is quite good, and his descriptive powers are impressive. You will be repeatedly shocked and horrified by the events described; the book is not for the faint of heart. Yet it's an essential read for anyone interested in the Holocaust, particularly from the POV of a prisoner who has much more freedom than the rest of the camp. It doesn't get much into the viewpoint of a common prisoner at Auschwitz, but does describe in graphic detail the ovens, the behavior of the Nazis running the camp, and the gas chambers. If you can stand to read it without vomiting or simply being unable to continue any further, you may be changed forever. Very highly recommended.
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Summary: Terrifying, but nothing new
Review: Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew, was carted off to Auschwitz along with the rest of his family sometime in early 1944. He volunteered to be the assistant to Dr. Josef Mengele--the so-called "Angel of Death"--because he was a doctor and had very good insight into pathology. He was a Sonderkommando, a man of the living dead that did the disgusting job of disposing of the bodies of gas chamber victims. In Nyiszli's case, he was given a pathologist's job of performing autopsies on freshly killed cadavers. Miraculously, he survived the terrors of the camp because Mengele refused to have him killed (all Sonderkommandos were killed after four months and replaced by others, for the SS wanted no survivors to tell tales) for there were very few doctors who were as good and skilled as Nyiszli. Therefore, he wrote about all of his experiences in this book after he was a free man. However, I have found that Nyiszli's book is just another account of the sadistic ordeals that the inmates of Auschwitz went through. If you are well-read in the history of the Holocaust, then you too may find this statement to be true. In other words, there is not much in here that has already been written about it, even though this book was one of the first to come out on the subject. Aside from that, Nyiszli's book is excellently written: it reads like a fast pacing novel in which you find yourself at the start, and in the next moment, you are at the end.
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Summary: Terrifying, but nothing new
Review: Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew, was carted off to Auschwitz along with the rest of his family sometime in early 1944. He volunteered to be the assistant to Dr. Josef Mengele--the so-called "Angel of Death"--because he was a doctor and had very good insight into pathology. He was a Sonderkommando, a man of the living dead that did the disgusting job of disposing of the bodies of gas chamber victims. In Nyiszli's case, he was given a pathologist's job of performing autopsies on freshly killed cadavers. Miraculously, he survived the terrors of the camp because Mengele refused to have him killed (all Sonderkommandos were killed after four months and replaced by others, for the SS wanted no survivors to tell tales) for there were very few doctors who were as good and skilled as Nyiszli. Therefore, he wrote about all of his experiences in this book after he was a free man. However, I have found that Nyiszli's book is just another account of the sadistic ordeals that the inmates of Auschwitz went through. If you are well-read in the history of the Holocaust, then you too may find this statement to be true. In other words, there is not much in here that has already been written about it, even though this book was one of the first to come out on the subject. Aside from that, Nyiszli's book is excellently written: it reads like a fast pacing novel in which you find yourself at the start, and in the next moment, you are at the end.
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Summary: The facts about 2 nd WW is of my special interest ...
Review: The facts about 2 nd WW is of my special interest, yet netiher me nor my people had been directly influenced by this human tragedy. The jewish people who had gone all through this suffering must and always be remembered by every modern person so that they had not wasted their lives for nothing. I bothered to write this review because this book must be read by everyone as an example of how men like the author of this book are also as responsible of this massacre as the ones who commit this crime. To save his very personal life and comfort , Dr N did betray those who lost lives . It is always humanly and patriot to die once as a man for the sake of the 'deed ' rather than living in disgrace just to save his rotten life. It feels in the book that he ' likes what he is doing about his inhumane experiments' and call that ' medicine '. He always constantly mentions about his own comfort (baths, food , liqour ...) where others just feed on bread, asks Mengele to change ' dissection room' as the cries of the souls ( his own fellows ) disturb him while working on his ' evil '. He does not participate the uprise,raher prefers wathiching his fellow mates killed one by one, then complain only of his own bruises. In Matthausen , he hides himself against Nazi question ' Who worked in Auschwith ?' that no response of him ( as he carries Auschwitz tatoo, and could easily be identified) might cause Nazis' to kill everyone in the barracks. I am deeply influenced by this book, and saw how a man like the author of this book can just turn to a creature , not less responsible of this human tragedy than the Nazi's.
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Summary: An Eye Opening Reading
Review: 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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Summary: An Eye Opening Reading
Review: 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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