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38 reviews
Olga Lengyel

Granada Pub. Co, 1972

"Life" in Auschwitz; Nazi Genocidal Ambitions beyond Jews and Gypsies
This review is based on the original (1947) edition. Let's focus on some seldom-developed issues. Large numbers of Polish clergy were sent to Auschwitz in the early years of the camp. However, Lengyel reports many more arriving in 1944 (pp. 108-110). They were often put to death immediately; the remainder being subject to degrading humiliations and tortures. Polish children were frozen to ...

If This Is a Man and The Truce (Penguin Modern Classics)

11 reviews
Primo Levi

Viking Pr, 1979

The key book of the twentieth century
If I had to nominate one book from the 20th century to give to a person from another century it would be this one. The two books in this single volume complement eachother perfectly. They are so different and yet I cannot say which is the better book. I have tried for several weeks to write a few paragraphs to sell this book to any would-be reader, but nothing I can say can convey the ...

Triumph of Hope : From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel

11 reviews
Ruth Elias, Margot Bettauer Dembo

Wiley, 1999

Excellent and Haunting
I have read dozens of Holocaust memoirs, and although they are always touching and intense, none have caused me to feel such grief for the author as this one. I literally had to stop reading and bawl my eyes out for a good 10 minutes. This woman endured so much, and with such grace, that you cannot help but be invested in her story. Highly recommended.

The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-birkenau

9 reviews
Ann Weiss

Jewish Publication Society of America, 2005

Memorial Day
I read this book by chance, yesterday, Memorial Day 2003. Been crying. It's like Schindler's List or Sophie's choice. How could they do it? How can we let them continue doing it? The animals still are around us, although using another names, another symbols, another motivations. I kept reading, hoping to find some of the people to be safe at the end, but almost everybody was killed. Binim, Rozak, ...

Auschwitz: A New History

23 reviews
Laurence Rees

PublicAffairs, 2006

Humans at the worst they can be
Most history books tend to get bogged down in their own data and dry writing style. What makes "Auschwitz" stand out as one of the most important books ever on the infamous concentration and death camp (there were both in many locations in Nazi Germany) is its readability - accurate but poignant and full of the drama that the subject provided. Rees offers staggering information concerning ...

Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

11 reviews
Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent

St Martins Pr, 1989

Step Sister of Anne Frank
Eva's Story is another powerful tale coming to us from the Holocaust. Eva Schloss was the step sister of Anne Frank (her mother married Anne Franks father after the war). Her story parallels the story of Anne Frank in many ways: both were young girls in Amsterdam, both went into hidding, both were betrayed, and both were transported east to Auschwitz. The only difference is that Eva Schloss ...

Rena's Promise

44 reviews
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam

Beacon Press, 1996

Unbelievable but True
This is an incredible story of sisters in a concentration camp. I've done a great deal of research into the Holocaust, but never have I come across a book quite like this one. It literally changed my life. I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards, little things reminding me of Rena's story--eating a potato, walking outside with a coat on, seeing a young child playing. I found a ...

God's Perfect Scar

8 reviews
Mike Johnson

AuthorHouse, 2008

another great book
I dont read very much. History books especially. But that may change now that i've discovered Mike Johnson Books. God's perfect scar was great to read. I like the fast action and the characters seem honest. like real people with true virtues and real fears. Johnson shows us what true heros might do. I like the cowpen solders but Brecker is the BEST! i very much liked the book and will read it ...

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Vienna 1898-Auschwitz 1944: The artist who inspired the children's drawings of Terezin

7 reviews
Elena Makarova

Tallfellow/Every Picture Press, in association with the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, 2001

an inspirational biography
At first I thought the book, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis by Elena Makarova and Regina Seidman Miller, was just a beautiful exhihibition catalogue.There are hundreds of color plates of paintings so rich in imagination and expressive beauty, and there are designs for theater and costumes as well as plans for houses and rooms. She brought her unique inspirational creativity to every aspect of her ...

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir

13 reviews
Benjamin Jacobs

University Press of Kentucky, 2001

A Remarkable Story of Courage and Survival
I found out about this book after reading another book that the author co-wrote. It is called The 100-Year Secret and it deals with a portion of the material that is contained in The Dentist of Auschwitz. The author spent almost five years in various camps, riding in closed railroad cars in summer, open railroad cars in winter, on death marches in the dead of winter, and on "hell ships," that ...

Jude ---- My Reincarnation From Auschwitz

4 reviews
Jewelle St. James

St. James Publishing, 2006

A Gripping Past-Life Account
"So, here I was, asking the owner of the B&B about the Nazi death camp. `You may find yourself re-born after Auschwitz, yes?' she asked. She had no idea how right she would be. At the age of fifty-two, I was compelled to come. It was time to face the visions that haunted me for years." - From the book Jude For over twenty years, Jewelle St. James painstakingly delved into past life flashbacks, ...

Auschwitz, Ohio: From the Quatrain Some Die Mad

6 reviews
Perry Aayr

Writers Club Press, 2002

Couldn't Be Better
Auschwitz, Ohio couldn't be better... it absolutely is the finest work on Fifties Angst I''ve ever read. You can FEEL the suffocation....

I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

7 reviews
Gisella Perl

Ayer Co Pub, 1948

Explicit in detail and horror
Dr. Perl wrote skillfully and with clarity of the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz was pergatory and Bergen Belsen was hell. She told it just as it was with very little digression into unrelated subject matter. As Matt stated in his review...she writes as a surgeon, always cutting to the core of the story she had to relate. I must agree that this is one of the very finest books ...

Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The Story of Eva & Miriam Mozes

6 reviews
Eva Mozes Kor, Mary Wright

C a N D L E S, 1995

amazing woman
I met Eva when she came to my university to speak about Forigveness. I also had the amazing opportunity to interview her for the school newspaper. It's incredible to me how, after everything that she's been through, she is able to speak with such love and complete forgiveness in her heart. I think that she truly did set herself free when she forgave the nazis, and especially when she forgave ...

A Man for Others: Maximiliam Kolbe Saint of Auschwitz, in the Words of Those Who Knew Him

5 reviews
Patricia Treece

Our Sunday Visitor, 1986

Captivating.....
Patricia Treece steps back, and allows people that actually knew Fr. Maximilian Kolbe tell his story in their own words. The picture they paint is of an extraordinary man, and an extraordinary Catholic Christian. In short, a living Saint. Her skill in organizing and narrating the material adds to the experience in such a way that the reader becomes involved with, and gets to know, Fr. Kolbe. ...

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Story

5 reviews
Lucie Adelsberger

Northeastern, 2006

beauty and monstrosity
Lucie Adelsberger's memoir of surviving Auschwitz, opens with a description of life in Berlin in 1938. "It began with only a few so called 'trifles,' " she says, citing three incidents which leapt out of the maelstrom of edicts and indignities to confront her with the relentless cruelty of the regime. The first of these limited Jews to public benches marked for them, thereby denying the elderly, ...

Escape from Auschwitz: I Cannot Forgive

5 reviews
Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic

Grove Pr, 1968

Horrifying, mesmerizing story
I concur with others who claim this book changed their life. I read this book in high school in the mid 60s, and in my small Iowa town, where no Jews live, I became familiar with a minority that had borne unspeakable horror. Mr. Vrba was a teenage Slovak Jew that was deported from his country. In a series of almost miraculous events, he was able to secret himself and escape after nearly 3 ...

Guns and Barbed Wire: A Child Survives the Holocaust

4 reviews
Thomas Geve

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1987

Beautiful, stunning testimonial from the Holocaust
This book will touch your heart and shock you at the same time! The young man survived to tell his story and an amazing story it is. I could not put this book down and was moved to tears at one point. The atrocites of the Holocaust have been well-documented and it is humbling to realize that most Germans thought of themselves as "modern, respectable" citizens while gassing, torturing, and ...

Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival

4 reviews
Sam Kessel

Cooper Square Press, 2001

Hung before 25,000 witnesses. A gripping story of survival.
This excellent book covers the remarkable true story of Sim Kessel, a French Jew, throughout his experiences as a member of the French Resistance followed by his arrest by the Nazis and his subsequent detention at Auschwitz/Birkenau Concentration Camps. His numerous brushes with death at the hands of the Nazis throughout his detention are covered in some detail, including the forced death march ...

Rosa

6 reviews
Joyce Faulkner

Amazon, 2006

Joyce Faulkner Is A Storyteller
After reading Joyce's book: "In the Shadow of Suribachi", I will always be interested in her work. Thanks, Joyce, for sharing Rosa with us.

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