Auschwitz: A History

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I invite readers of the Holocaust to read my newly edited edition of my novel In the Face of Evil based on my mother's survival of the Holocaust.

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Top image is of the entrance to Auschwitz, 1945, courtesy of Bundesarchiv B 285 Bild-04413, KZ Auschwitz, Einfahrt. And there he was organizing the ghettoization, humiliation, degradation and starvation of more than 30,000 Jews in the town, making it easier for them to be rounded up by the Gestapo and the SS. There are vast numbers of survivors, tens of thousands, who are able to talk about it at some point.

I thought it was fascinating that both boys saw them almost like little toys in the air, independent accounts of the same experience. Edie went on to become an acclaimed clinical psychologist, and this is her incredible story of resilience and healing. Lengyel was a surgical assistant in Transylvania when she was deported to Auschwitz; she was able to secure work in an infirmary, a job that ultimately saved her life.

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Of course, it was a bigger phenomenon that went beyond West Germany—Vietnam War protests, the Prague Spring—that’s the wider atmosphere. There were ruses she and many others used, with stories about lost papers, about being bombed out, taking on false identities.

It is the most profound, haunting, and soul-churningly beautiful book I have ever read about the atrocity. The other thing to add about Bauer is that he was the guy who gave Mossad, the Israeli secret service, the tip-off on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann so that they could kidnap him and bring him to Jerusalem for trial. It is a challenging read, namely because it is difficult to swallow in one go, but it would be hard to think of any book that feels more important, immersive and original. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004.

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Is it something that you’re constantly dealing with, or is it an inevitable part of the work and something that you’re happy to embrace? I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant - The memoirs of Jewish physician, former prisoner of Auschwitz, who lived and worked at crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz. No war in history – except possibly the one that ended 20 years earlier – has inspired more literature.She comments on how Eastern European Jews who had lived very hard lives as peasants were able to withstand the ordeal better than Western European Jews who’d had bourgeois existences and didn’t have the same kind of survival skills. Determined to uncover the truth about Benjamin’s life and death and France’s betrayal of its Jewish population, Fiona pieces together her great-uncle’s life, elevating Benjamin’s legacy from a number tattooed on his arm at Auschwitz to a more complete memory of the vibrant man he was.