Overview
First published in 1947, 'Five Chimneys' by Olga Lengyel, a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who later wrote about her experiences in this book. Olga Lengyel recounts, honestly and without compromise, one of the most frightening stories of all time. This authentic, registered chronicle is the personal, day-to-day journal of a beautiful woman who endured the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. This book is a critical reminder of one of the most unappealing chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. "... Thank you for your very frank, very well-written book. You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten speak ...With best regards and wishes."- A. Einstein "This book is a horrifying, but necessary, reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. Passionate, tormenting."-New York Herald-Tribune "It is a picture of utter hell."-Saturday Review of Literature Top 10 Hardcover Library Books: A Wrinkle in Time (9789389440188) How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (9789387669161) Their Eyes Were Watching God (9789389440577) The Magic of Believing (9789388118217) Zen in the Art of Archery (9789354990298) A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night (9789391181611) Siddhartha by Hermann hesse (9789387669116) The Richest Man in Babylon (9789354990717) The Book of Five Rings (9789389440553) The Knowledge of the Holy (9789389157239) Note: Search by ISBN
- | Author: Olga Lengyel
- | Publisher: General Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 234 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 9354994040
- | ISBN-13: 9789354994043
