Miklós Nyiszli
Paperback | Pages: 222 pages Rating: 4.29 | 16008 Users | 1321 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Orvos voltam Auschwitzban |
| ISBN: | 1559702028 (ISBN13: 9781559702027) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Auschwitz(Poland) |
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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capactity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account.Describe Appertaining To Books Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
| Title | : | Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account |
| Author | : | Miklós Nyiszli |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 222 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2007 by Arcade Publishing (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. World War II. Holocaust. War. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography |
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Ratings: 4.29 From 16008 Users | 1321 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Great personal account of the horrible atrocities that took place at Auschwitz. This account is provided by a Jew that was forced to help the Germans with their medical experiments they preformed on the prisoners. The most intriguing part of this book is the way that you feel about the author as you read. For example, Nyiszli documents step by step how the Jews (and others) were butchered in the gas houses and crematoriums right before saying he had to take a nap. It is hard to feel sorry forUnfortunately, it seems to me that Holocaust memoirs can at this distance in space and time become something they were not meant to be, something disreputable, something akin to the torture porn of modern horror movies like Saw or Hostel. If you read a number of these memoirs you get to be a connoisseur of atrocities. When you find yourself being able to explain why Mauthausen was worse than Dachau, and how Treblinka and Chelmno differed from Stutthof and who Irma Grese was, and you are not
To say that Aushwitz is an interesting read would be a gross understatement. Aushwitz is a historical document. A memoir. A brilliant commentary. And most importantly an insider's tale of the horrors that the captives of one of the most dreadful concentration camps in history underwent. As a result, an attempt to rate the book on its literary value is not only a useless exercise but also a disrespectful one.Dr. Nyiszli's account portrays the terrible crimes and the injustice meted out to the
I've found that my mind muddles reading non-fiction accounts of the Holocaust with fictitious stories of it because sometimes it (my mind) cannot wrap itself around the fact that this horrifying event actually took place. I am FAR (imagine sixty billion miles away and then triple it and then double it and then quadruple that) from being knowledgeable on this time period and have only read a handful of books (fiction and non-fiction combined) about it. This book introduced me to the
I'm not sure how one "rates" a book like this. By the writing style or the plot progression? The man who wrote this was not a poet, and he was not trying to write a novel. This is a factual retelling of something that is beyond gruesome, and even if we went so far as to call it a "plot", rating history is a ridiculous concept.So I'll leave this one unrated and say only that despite everything, this is something people must read, and I urge everybody to find the fortitude to do it.Honestly, what
I'm not sure how one "rates" a book like this. By the writing style or the plot progression? The man who wrote this was not a poet, and he was not trying to write a novel. This is a factual retelling of something that is beyond gruesome, and even if we went so far as to call it a "plot", rating history is a ridiculous concept.So I'll leave this one unrated and say only that despite everything, this is something people must read, and I urge everybody to find the fortitude to do it.Honestly, what
Really, I probably need a few days to digest this book before I review it, but here are some of my thoughts:1. I've read many books about the holocaust, but this is the first personal account of life directly within a death camp that I've read. Though I knew some of the horrors that went inside, I had no idea how atrocious they were, or that they were committed in the name of science. I'm sure there was much omitted from Dr. Nyiszli's account, but this book gives the reader a fairly good idea of
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