Five ChimneysHaving lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, FIVE CHIMNEYS does not retreat into self-pity or sensationalism. When first published (two years after World War 2 ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal letter to Lengyel, thanking her for her very frank, very well written book. Today, with 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia, and neo-Nazism on the rise in western Europe, we cannot afford to forget the grisly lessons of the Holocaust. FIVE CHIMNEYS is a stark reminder that the unspeakable can happen wherever and whenever ethnic hatreds, religious bigotries, and racial discriminations are permitted to exist." |
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... girl from Hungary , had caught scarlet fever while caring for her patients . On the day she discovered that she had it , the Germans had just ceased to tolerate it . Since the diagnosis had been made by a German doctor , the nurse knew ...
... girl from Hungary , had caught scarlet fever while caring for her patients . On the day she discovered that she had it , the Germans had just ceased to tolerate it . Since the diagnosis had been made by a German doctor , the nurse knew ...
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... girl's right eye . Her face covered with blood , the unfortunate girl begged us to tell her if she would regain her sight . " If I can never see Georges again , what is the use of living ? I don't want to be blind ! " We carried her to ...
... girl's right eye . Her face covered with blood , the unfortunate girl begged us to tell her if she would regain her sight . " If I can never see Georges again , what is the use of living ? I don't want to be blind ! " We carried her to ...
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... girl from Poland , with whom he was in love . Both had been in camp for a long time . They escaped from Birkenau ... girl emphatically refused to carry the placard ! The Germans behaved as though thunderstruck . An S.S. guard beat her ...
... girl from Poland , with whom he was in love . Both had been in camp for a long time . They escaped from Birkenau ... girl emphatically refused to carry the placard ! The Germans behaved as though thunderstruck . An S.S. guard beat her ...
Contents
8 HORSESOR 96 MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | 11 |
THE ARRIVAL | 21 |
BARRACK 26 | 33 |
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