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22 reviews
Laurence Rees, 2005

History of the Camp
When considering the history of the Holocaust, Auschwitz and extermination are synonymous, as it should be for the 1.1 million people who were killed by the Nazis at this concentration camp alone. Yet as Laurence Rees sets out to show in "Auschwitz: A New History", the camp's beginnings were a far cry from its final stages. Like other concentration camps within the Nazi's network, Auschwitz ...

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 ...

Friedl, Dicker-Brandeis, Vienna 1898- Auschwitz 19

7 reviews
Elena Makarova, 1999

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 ...

Rena's Promise

42 reviews
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam

Beacon Press, 1996

Excellent reading!
I just started reading this book yesterday, and I must say I am completely intrigued! I do like this type of memoir reading and I love to read about the atroscities of the holocaust. This book is a very easy read and it really captivates you; I haven't wanted to put it down yet!!

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

9 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

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, ...

Man's Search for Meaning

68 reviews
Viktor E. Frankl

Beacon Press, 2006

Just buy it
I've read this more times than I can count. The autobiographical part of the book is stirring. The details of Logotherapy wear a bit thin after many reads, just because of familiarity. I don't really relate to the idea of suffering as a life accomplishment - not because I devalue the trials of those who have no other choice, but just because I'm disconnected enough from it that I have trouble ...

Five chimneys

37 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 ...

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 ...

Auschwitz

6 reviews
Sybille Steinbacher

Allen Lane, 2005

Concise and straightforward telling of the monstrous realities that built the camps and what happened in them
The name Auschwitz is so loaded with associations of almost universal evil that it barely occurs to people that there is a reality to be known. Using the name as a shortcut for the Holocaust, for genocide, mass murder, poison gas, crematoria, Nazi SS terror troops, and more actually cheats us. This rather small book takes on the big task of telling in a very straightforward way how Auschwitz came ...

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.

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....

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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