Description
| Product ID: | 9780141392219 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account |
| Authors: | Author: Miklos Nyiszli, Tibere Kremer, Richard Sevear |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, European history, History, The Holocaust, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, The Holocaust, Poland, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian 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. When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian 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 survived to give this terrifying and sobering account of the terror of Auschwitz. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-10-25 |