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Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Miklos Nyiszli | | Publisher: | Arcade Publishing | | Release date: | 01 September, 1993 | | List price: | $12.95 |
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Honest and sensitive account of brutality |
This first person account by an anatomist/doctor who assisted Mengele in completing autopsies is suprisingly perceptive and sensitive. It differs greatly from some other narratives I have read. It was not the Dante's Inferno that Elie Weisel describes. I believe Weisel sensationalized. Departing from the transports was not punctuated by brutal Nazi's beating people to death. Instead, the doctor describes order and tolerance; this actually seems believable as the guards want the least resistance in your walking to your death. Moreover, I am sure each experience varied significantly. I must say we can't just "not forget," it is not enough. Rather we must understand the variety of experience and not sensationalize the event needlessly. The danger of this is presenting the material inaccuratley, resulting in our inability to recoginize the signs that it could all be happening again. Miklos does not do this.
What also fascinated me was his relationship with Mengele. Mengele had a bitter harsh side. Once Miklos was humanized, he was treated quite well by Mengele. He even let him find his family and bring goods to assist their survival. Also, the day to day life of the Sonder-Commando's that he is paired with and medically attends to was heartbreaking as they lived under an assured death sentence. See Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone. |
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A True Nightmare |
Auschwitz, A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, is the horrific story of what life, if one could call it that, was like inside of the crematoriums at Auschwitz as told by an inmate doctor who performed gruesome operations "under the supervision of the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele." Even though this doctor was working under the constant threat of death, and even though we cannot come close to imaging what it was like to have been thrust into this world against ones choice, one cannot help but wonder how he managed to do the things that he did. In my opinion, he certainly did not make himself a sympathetic figure in the same manner as the main subjects of other holocaust books have. However, the strength of this book is the in depth detail it goes into when describing one's horrific existence in the crematoriums and that is why this is a book that must be read.
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Horrifying look into the Holocaust |
| This book was very good. The main character did what he could to be able to tell the story to future generations in order to prevent this from ever happening again, and also to survive. Nyiszli, should have died a dozen times in this book, but each time he escaped death. Of the thousands-He may have been the luckiest Auschwitz prisoner to survive. We must continue to read books like this, because as horrifying as they are, they teach us to never forget; for as soon as you forget there is chance that it could happen again. |
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