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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... odor , much like that of burning flesh , although we did not identify it as that . This odor greeted us upon our arrival and stayed with us always . The " Lager " occupied a vast space of about six by eight miles , as I later verified ...
... odor , much like that of burning flesh , although we did not identify it as that . This odor greeted us upon our arrival and stayed with us always . The " Lager " occupied a vast space of about six by eight miles , as I later verified ...
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... gave off the sickeningly sweetish odor was the crematory , to which the young and the old and the sick had been consigned , and to which ultimately we were all doomed . CHAPTER III Barrack 26 We arrived in front of the THE ARRIVAL 31.
... gave off the sickeningly sweetish odor was the crematory , to which the young and the old and the sick had been consigned , and to which ultimately we were all doomed . CHAPTER III Barrack 26 We arrived in front of the THE ARRIVAL 31.
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... odors : sometimes she blended her own concoctions . Her immoderate use of per- fume was perhaps the supreme refinement ... odor of burnt human flesh , which covered the camp like a blanket , crept over us again , the atmos- phere became ...
... odors : sometimes she blended her own concoctions . Her immoderate use of per- fume was perhaps the supreme refinement ... odor of burnt human flesh , which covered the camp like a blanket , crept over us again , the atmos- phere became ...
Contents
8 HORSESOR 96 MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | 11 |
THE ARRIVAL | 21 |
BARRACK 26 | 33 |
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