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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story Of Auschwitz [Illustrated Edition]
- 406 pages
- English
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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
- 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
- Glossary