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

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

Olga Lengyel

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

Olga Lengyel

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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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Publisher

Normanby Press

Year

2015

ISBN

9781786251794

Topic

History

Subtopic

Jewish History

Index

History

Title page
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
From a letter to Olga Lengyel from Albert Einstein
CHAPTER I - 8 Horses - or 96 Men, Women, and Children
CHAPTER II - The Arrival
CHAPTER III - Barrack 26
CHAPTER IV - First Impressions
CHAPTER V - Roll Call and “Selections”
CHAPTER VI - The Camp
CHAPTER VII - A Proposal in Auschwitz
CHAPTER VIII - I Am Condemned to Death
CHAPTER IX - The Infirmary
CHAPTER X - A New Reason for Living
CHAPTER XI - “Canada”
CHAPTER XII - The Morgue
CHAPTER XIII - The “Angel of Death” vs. the “Grand Selector”
CHAPTER XIV - “Organization”
CHAPTER XV - Accursed Births
CHAPTER XVI - Small Details of Living Behind Barbed Wire
CHAPTER XVII - The Methods and Their Madness
CHAPTER XVIII - Our Private Lives
CHAPTER XIX - The Beasts of Auschwitz
CHAPTER XX - The Underground
CHAPTER XXI - “Paris Is Liberated”
CHAPTER XXII - Scientific Experiments
CHAPTER XXIII - Love in the Shadow of the Crematory
CHAPTER XXIV - In the Death Car
CHAPTER XXV - On the Threshold of the Unknown
CHAPTER XXVI - Freedom
CHAPTER XXVII - I Still Have Faith
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