Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story Of Auschwitz [Illustrated Edition]
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story Of Auschwitz [Illustrated Edition]

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story Of Auschwitz [Illustrated Edition]

About this book

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book."... Thank you for your very frank, very well written book. You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten speak...With best regards and wishes, — A. Einstein.""This book is a horrifying, but necessary, reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilisation. Passionate, tormenting'"—New York Herald-Tribune"It is a picture of utter hell"—Saturday Review of Literature

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. From a letter to Olga Lengyel from Albert Einstein
  5. CHAPTER I - 8 Horses - or 96 Men, Women, and Children
  6. CHAPTER II - The Arrival
  7. CHAPTER III - Barrack 26
  8. CHAPTER IV - First Impressions
  9. CHAPTER V - Roll Call and “Selections”
  10. CHAPTER VI - The Camp
  11. CHAPTER VII - A Proposal in Auschwitz
  12. CHAPTER VIII - I Am Condemned to Death
  13. CHAPTER IX - The Infirmary
  14. CHAPTER X - A New Reason for Living
  15. CHAPTER XI - “Canada”
  16. CHAPTER XII - The Morgue
  17. CHAPTER XIII - The “Angel of Death” vs. the “Grand Selector”
  18. CHAPTER XIV - “Organization”
  19. CHAPTER XV - Accursed Births
  20. CHAPTER XVI - Small Details of Living Behind Barbed Wire
  21. CHAPTER XVII - The Methods and Their Madness
  22. CHAPTER XVIII - Our Private Lives
  23. CHAPTER XIX - The Beasts of Auschwitz
  24. CHAPTER XX - The Underground
  25. CHAPTER XXI - “Paris Is Liberated”
  26. CHAPTER XXII - Scientific Experiments
  27. CHAPTER XXIII - Love in the Shadow of the Crematory
  28. CHAPTER XXIV - In the Death Car
  29. CHAPTER XXV - On the Threshold of the Unknown
  30. CHAPTER XXVI - Freedom
  31. CHAPTER XXVII - I Still Have Faith
  32. Glossary