Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lengyel, Olga (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897333764 ISBN-13: 9780897333764 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: August 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - Biography & Autobiography - History | Military - World War Ii |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.65 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
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Publisher Description: 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 does not retreat into self-pity or sensationalism. When first published (two years after World War 2 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-Nazism 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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