Auschwitz, a Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Description
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli faced an impossible choice: death or complicity. Selected as the personal research pathologist to Dr. Josef Mengele—the notorious "Angel of Death"—Nyiszli was forced to conduct horrific medical experiments on fellow prisoners while serving as physician to the Sonderkommando, the doomed workers of the crematoriums. This unflinching firsthand account reveals the unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz from the perspective of a man caught between survival and moral devastation. Nyiszli's testimony stands as one of the most harrowing and essential documents of the Holocaust, offering a chilling window into the systematic dehumanization and scientific barbarism that defined the Nazi regime's darkest crimes. A sobering and necessary historical record that bears witness to humanity's capacity for evil.
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paperback
Fawcett
Published Jan 1, 1960
254 pages
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First Published
1961
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for Auschwitz, a Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli.