Eyewitness Auschwitz
Three Years in the Gas Chambers

I've visited Auschwitz. I've walked the stark grounds with a shaking feeling of anger too great to express at the sheer arrogant absurdity of it all. The practical idiotic mindset and machine which the Nazis created to perpetrate such unspeakable crimes, yet rather ordinary people allowed themselves......more

brutally honest ... so very difficult to read......more

I wouldn't say I enjoyed this book as such - I don't think one is supposed to say they enjoy reading this kind of thing - but this was a very insightful - and graphic - account of what life was like in the death camps of what the Nazi's dubbed 'The Final Solution'. I'd recommend this book to anyone w......more

I’ve read many Holocaust memoirs, all of them terrible, heart-breaking and shocking in their own way, but Eyewitness Auschwitz stands out for several other reasons. It is the story of Filip Muller, who spent more than two years in Auschwitz, and saw some of the worst things that human beings can do t......more

I've mentioned this many times -- I like to read Holocaust and WWII memoirs because they show the beauty of man overcoming the ugly. Well, this book is indeed about the ugly -- the ugliest I've ever read. This is an unprecedented memoir of a man who ends up being a prisoner at Aushwitz as a crematoriu......more