When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he … he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account.
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One of the few first hand accounts of a P.O.W. in Auschwitz . Sad, disturbing, not for the faint of heart… but a good book, nonetheless.
Before reading this book the Holocaust was just something that happened. This brought the horror and evil into focus. ISIS is nothing compared to the inhumane acts that we’re perpetrated by the Germans/Hitler.
Authentic depiction of conditions, reality & horrors of war.
Eye opening first hand account of in concentration camp and experiemnts done or ordered by Dr. Mengele
This was a great book. This is scary and so real because it happened. If trump gets in it will happen again. Welcome to the Trump Camp
It’s difficult to give five stars to a book about the Holocaust as that was such a horrible time in the history of mankind. This books was well written and describes many of the horrors that occurred from the perspective of one individual who lived through much of it. Highly recommended for those mature adults that are interested in that time in history.
Thank you for what it must have cost you to relive that horrible, terrible time in your life. So much pain and suffering. Pray the world never forgets .
This book is the actual story of Dr. Mikios Nyiszli–a Hungarian Jew who was sent to Auschwitz where thousands of Jews were cremated. The head doctor of the camp, Dr. Josef Mengele pulled Dr. Nyiszli from the crowd to make him a personal assistant. Dr. Nyiszli was forced to do experiments on Jews who were killed but not cremated. He was able to stay al alive to tell the world what really happened in the camp. It is difficult reading but the actual facts needed to be told.
Informative & heart wrenching story of what the Labor camp Nazi prisoners went through in WW2! Unbelievable courage was demonstrated which in today’s world would be impossible to come close to ever be witnessed! I am sickened to learn more of this kind of suffering which keeps me humbled! We should be more aware of the blessings we are awarded in our country, which are often overlooked!
Informative, heart breaking
The Holocaust should NEVER be forgotten. I am glad that this book describes exactly how horrid conditions were for those imprisoned.
Traumatic but riveting as well as stomach turning
Anyone who has not learned of the Holocaust needs to read this book by a Jewish man who was at the horror camps of The Nazis. We must never forget and we need to learn from this horrific time in world history.
Eye opening!
A little difficult to follow, but good.
Heartbreaking
“A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account” is a memoir written by a Hungarian Jewish doctor Miklós Nyiszli, who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and selected as an assistant to the infamous Dr. Mengele. Compared to all of the other memoirs that I’ve read throughout my life, Nyiszli fared comparatively well. Given his own separate living quarters next to the dissection room near one of the gassing facilities and made to respond only to Dr. Mengele himself, he didn’t have to suffer from daily beatings and starvation; yet, the entire arrangement felt like a deal with the devil as he had soon realized.
Dr. Mengele was obsessed with pseudo-scientific research and was allowed free reign with his human guinea pigs in Auschwitz. The only reason why Dr. Nyiszli was left alive was due to his qualifications as a pathologist famous in his circles. Soon, multiple skeletons and preserved biological material was sent to Germany’s scientific institutes, accompanied by Dr. Mengele’s reports on “yet another proof of the degeneration of the Jewish race.”
Dr. Nyiszli’s account is so important because he was perhaps the only person who worked so closely with the man who certainly earned his nickname, the Angel of Death, and lived to tell about it. Multiple dissections, pseudo-scientific experiments, and the doctor who was forced to harm instead of helping according to the oath he’s given – all this makes this memoir a truly important and fascinating read. Mostly told in a somewhat detached, scientific tone, it still never fails to display inner turmoil and suffering. Highly recommended to everyone interested in the history of the Holocaust.
I wasn’t sure if I’d like reading about this tragic time in history, but after starting to read this book it was hard to put it down. This couldn’t have been easy for the author to write about his horrific losses and experiences that became very real to the reader. I had an idea of what happened in these concentration camps, but this book was an eye-opening education to me. The book was well written and informative.
Very personal account of the horrors of the holocaust
It made the truth of the life of a worker in the crematorium, who never knew when his turn would be next.