Five Chimneys: The Story Of Auschwitz (Hardcover)

from shsb

This is one woman's first-hand account of life at Birkenau and Auschwitz. While imprisoned there, she made it her goal to survive, explicitly to tell the world about the atrocities perpetuated by the Nazis. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in true accounts of the Holocaust.

from ElizaJane

What makes this book so interesting for the modern reader is that it was written in 1959. The events were still so fresh and raw in the author's mind that it is a still current event which places the reader so close to the time as opposed to a modern book that looks back in history. A very straig...

from shsb

This is one woman's first-hand account of life at Birkenau and Auschwitz. While imprisoned there, she made it her goal to survive, explicitly to tell the world about the atrocities perpetuated by the Nazis. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in true accounts of the Holocaust.

from SoniaNoemi

La doctora Olga Lengyel escribe sus experiencias en los campos de exterminio de Auschwitz y Birkenau, desde su llegada, hasta la liberación. Sus detalladas descripciones comprenden en su totalidad el libro. Dr. Olga Lengyel wrote his experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, since...

from froxgirl

A devastating first person account by a Transylvanian deportee in Birkenau (the work camp where living was daily torture) and Auschwitz (the death camp). Upon her family's arrival at the camps via cattle car, the author unknowingly sent her sons and parents to the crematorium, and then lived anot...