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Five Chimneys: A Woman's Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

AUTHOR: Olga Lengyel
ISBN: 0897333764

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This...

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Five Chimneys: A Woman's Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
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by Olga Lengyel

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Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz does not retreat into self-pit or sensationalism. When Five Chimneys was first published (two years after World War II ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal letter to Lengyel, thanking her for her "very frank, very well written book". Today, with "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, and neo-Nazis on the rise in western Europe, we cannot afford to forget the grisly lessons of the Holocaust. Five Chimneys is a stark reminder that the unspeakable can happen wherever and whenever ethnic hatreds, religious bigotries, and racial discriminations are permitted to exist.


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         Book Review

Five Chimneys: A Woman's Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
- Book Reviews,
by Olga Lengyel

Five Chimneys: A Woman's Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

ANNOTATION

Memoir of a Hungarian woman who was imprisoned for several years in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.

FROM THE CRITICS

of Literature Saturday Review

"It is a picture of utter hell."

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Thank your for your very frank, very well-written book. You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten speak..." — Albert Einstein


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