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    Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    By Olga Lengyel

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 30, 2005
    ISBN9780897336314

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    • 4/5
      An amazing story.
      The will to live that comes across is nearly palpable.
      The strength to endure is constant and inspiring.
    • 5/5
      La doctora Olga Lengyel escribe sus experiencias en los campos de exterminio de Auschwitz y Birkenau, desde su llegada, hasta la liberación. Sus detalladas descripciones comprenden en su totalidad el libro. Dr. Olga Lengyel wrote his experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, since his arrival, until liberation. His detailed descriptions fully understand the book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Written shortly after the Holocaust, Olga Lengyel tells the world how she survived the atrocious conditions of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Olga's husband, a well-known Doctor was arrested for alleged anti-Nazi policies. Reassured by German soldiers, Olga, her parents sand two young sons decided to accompany him to Germany. Placed into a crowded train, they quickly realized the error they had made.Olga writes in a detached way, presenting her story in an unemotional and therefore ineffectual fashion. The conditions of the concentration camp, although horrible, do not completely resonate through her writing style. I would have liked to read more about her involvement with the resistance movement and her interactions in the infirmary.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is one woman's first-hand account of life at Birkenau and Auschwitz. While imprisoned there, she made it her goal to survive, explicitly to tell the world about the atrocities perpetuated by the Nazis. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in true accounts of the Holocaust.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      People may nitpick, argue over what was real or not, but this book FIVE CHIMNEYS is the true story as seen through one womans eyes. AUSCHWITZ. The word alone stirs up fear ! I would think that the words and the reality would churn up your emotions....i would think that as a survivor it would be necessary to close off that part of your life. To dwell on it, to live it over and over would be emotional torture. So readers who say it lacked emotion are nutty, just my opinion.
    • 4/5
      A devastating first person account by a Transylvanian deportee in Birkenau (the work camp where living was daily torture) and Auschwitz (the death camp). Upon her family's arrival at the camps via cattle car, the author unknowingly sent her sons and parents to the crematorium, and then lived another year until liberation by the Russian Army. Nothing more needs to be said.