Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
by Olga Lengyel
(Click here)
Book Summary Information
Author: Olga LengyelEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN: 0897333764
Number of pages: 231
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Book Reviews of Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
Book Review: Mesmerizing......
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is the story of Olga Lengyel, an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor. Her personal story is horrifying but also true. She did what she had to do to survive.
Olga's eyewitness accounts are descriptive in every way and shows indictment of what the Nazis have done to the unfortunate.
Surprising to me was that so many non-jews were also executed along with jews. The torture and living conditions were worse than any hell could be imagined. Olga's writing of this book should be laudable so that others will never forget these atrocities; this history should be remembered so that it will NEVER be repeated...
Summary of Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, FIVE CHIMNEYS does not retreat into self-pity or sensationalism. When first published (two years after World War 2 ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal letter to Lengyel, thanking her for her "very frank, very well written book". Today, with 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia, and neo-Nazism on the rise in western Europe, we cannot afford to forget the grisly lessons of the Holocaust. FIVE CHIMNEYS is a stark reminder that the unspeakable can happen wherever and whenever ethnic hatreds, religious bigotries, and racial discriminations are permitted to exist.Jewish Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Great Books
Night (Oprah's Book Club)by Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang; Published: 2006-01-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.44
Price in other shops:
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Accountby Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Arcade Publishing; Published: 1993-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $42.84
Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitzby Olga Lengyel
Academy Chicago Publishers; Published: 1995-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.90
Price in other shops:
Exodus (Modern Classics)by Leon Uris
Wings; Published: 2000-04-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $48.64
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Missionby Hampton Sides
Anchor; Published: 2002-05-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
Flags of Our Fathers (Movie Tie-in Edition)by James Bradley, Ron Powers
Bantam; Published: 2006-08-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.24
Price in other shops:
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivorsby Doug Stanton
Holt Paperbacks; Published: 2003-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.45
Price in other shops:
D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War IIby Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster; Published: 1995-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops:
Trumanby David McCullough
Simon & Schuster; Published: 1993-06-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
All But My Lifeby Gerda Weissmann Klein
Hill and Wang; Published: 1995-03-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.46
Price in other shops:
WITNESS: Voices from the Holocaustby Joshua M. Greene, Shiva Kumar
Free Press; Published: 2001-04-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops:
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitzby Rudolf H?ss
Da Capo Press; Published: 1996-03-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.95
Price in other shops:
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitzby Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1992-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.27
Price in other shops:
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Landby Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
The University of North Carolina Press; Published: 1986-08-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitzby Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam, Rena Kornreich Gelisssen
Beacon Press; Published: 1996-10-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.37
Price in other shops:
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaustby Livia Bitton-Jackson
Simon Pulse; Published: 1999-03-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.45
Price in other shops:
The Cageby Ruth Minsky Sender
Simon Pulse; Published: 1997-08-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.16
Price in other shops:
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaustby Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun
Scholastic Paperbacks; Published: 2005-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.75
Price in other shops:
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambersby Filip Muller
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher; Published: 1999-08-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.79
Price in other shops: