Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Summary

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous "Angel of Death": Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account of the terror of Auschwitz.

This new Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by Richard Evans.

Reviews

  • The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available
    The New York Review of Books

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Miklos Nyiszli

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