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.
Five Chimneys
By olgalengyel
“Five Chimneys” is a Holocaust memoir written by Olga Lengyel, a Hungarian woman deported to Auschwitz in 1944 after the Germans occupied her native country. From the very beginning, she is subjected to inhumane conditions of the camp which, along with learning the news of her children and elderly parents perishing right after the arrival, almost …
Five Chimneys is a books about the Holocaust and the countless that were dragged from their homes to be killed. Whether they died on the way to the death camps by starvation on the cattle train, or by being gassed or burnt alive. This is not just a story, but being told, written by one who survived this hellish thing, by demonic people, and yet …
Every time I read a book about the Holocaust I learn. The author relates the last days of the concentration camp and how the Nazis ran them.