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Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
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Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz Features
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ISBN13: 9780897333764
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Additional Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz Information
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Having 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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What Customers Say About Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz:
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The torture and living conditions were worse than any hell could be imagined. She did what she had to do to survive.Olga's eyewitness accounts are descriptive in every way and shows indictment of what the Nazis have done to the unfortunate.Surprising to me was that so many non-jews were also executed along with jews. Olga's writing of this book should be laudable so that others will never forget these atrocities; this history should be remembered so that it will NEVER be repeated. This book is the story of Olga Lengyel, an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor. Her personal story is horrifying but also true.
Reading a book like this makes all our mediocre problems in life disappear in comparison.She is a courageous woman and a survivor of indescribable horror, and yet has the hope and desire to go on proving man's insatiable will to live. It is hard to imagine such terrifying ordeals and live to tell about them. A very good book for all to read.and remember. This true story of Olga Lengyel's Auschwitz experience is truly heart wrenching and frank. She relays the most heinous living conditions and brutal "man's inhumanity to man" experiences I have ever read.
Buy this book. Having read many documentaries about Auschwitz-Birkeneau is one thing.but reading it from someone who personally experienced it, provides a perspective that you could have never imagined.
Made me think alot about humanity itself. How could people do this to other HUMANS. Its a horrifying read and its real. 1st person account of a death camp. Shes a brave woman and god bless all those affected How could this happen. Very devastating. HOw could people allow this to happen.
My heart breaks for these people. It was facinating but so unreal. I just cannot fathom that these events could actually occur.
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