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Genre/Form: | Biographies Personal narratives Biography Personal narratives, Jewish Récits personnels juifs |
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Named Person: | Alfréd Wetzler; Alfréd Wetzler; Alfred Wetzler; Alfréd Wetzler |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfréd Wetzler; Péter Várnai |
ISBN: | 9781845451837 184545183X |
OCLC Number: | 70149254 |
Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Just for work -- Work, German style -- An exalted visit -- An even more exalted visit -- The ceremonial -- A more or less normal evening -- Two thousand metres of track -- To die, or to perish? -- 'In the name of Reichsführer SS' -- Danger: live ammunition! -- Two against a regiment -- Death lives on the other side -- 'Did you see it with your own eyes?' -- 'But what about the postcards?' -- There are limits to human imagination. |
Responsibility: | Alfred Wetzler ; edited by Péter Várnai ; translated from the Slovak by Ewald Osers. |
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Abstract:
Together with another young Slovak Jew, both of them deported in 1942, the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944. This work offers an account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions in the camp.
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"...a compelling read; a real thriller. It provides very vivid descriptions of daily life in the camp and recounts in details the miraculous escape and the escapees' subsequent struggle to convince the unbelieving world of the happenings in Auschwitz-Birkenau." * British Czech and Slovak Review "The writing style is direct, with vivid descriptions of harrowing experiences and soul-searching conversations. In these manners, it is akin to Elie Wiesel's Night". * Jewish Culture and History Read more...

