Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account

Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, ''the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.'' FOREWORD......Page 6 INTRODUCTION......Page 26 DECLARATION......Page 35 I......Page 38 II......Page 45 III......Page 49 IV......Page 56 V......Page 60 VI......Page 65 VII......Page 79 VIII......Page 91 IX......Page 105 X......Page 109 XI......Page 113 XII......Page 122 XIII......Page 128 XIV......Page 136 XV......Page 141 XVI......Page 146 XVII......Page 156 XVIII......Page 158 XIX......Page 167 XX......Page 176 XXI......Page 181 XXII......Page 185 XXIII......Page 189 XXIV......Page 192 XXV......Page 198 XXVI......Page 212 XXVII......Page 218 XXVIII......Page 238 XXIX......Page 245 XXX......Page 258 XXXI......Page 261 XXXII......Page 265 XXXIII......Page 269 XXXIV......Page 277 XXXV......Page 281 XXXVI......Page 284 XXXVII......Page 291 XXXVIII......Page 301 EPILOGUE......Page 305 When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capactity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account. Man's inhumanity to man as witnessed by a Hungarian physician chosen to direct biological experiments on prisoners Tells Of The Hideous Experiments Performed On Jewish Victims At The Infamous Nazi Concentration Camp Eyewitness account of the Holocaust at a Nazi death camp