This is not my review. However, this book was very informative. I would recommend this book. Here is the book's description as written on Amazon.
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."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.Auschwitz was one
of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the
American public. Although much has since been written about the Holocaust, this
eyewitness account remains, as the New York Review of Bookssaid in 1987, "the
best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available." Of Bruno Bettelheim’s
famous foreword Neal Ascherson has written, "Its eloquence and outrage must
guarantee it a permanent place in Jewish historiography."
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