Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
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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...
Book Review: A gripping account of life and death at Auschwitz
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was first published in English in 1947. It presents life and death in Auschwitz in great detail, and offers an excellent overview of the concentration camp world. The author's own story is "gripping" and "heartwrenching." The early date, two years after WWII ended, ensures that the author's memories of the camp are still clear and the details very precise. Olga Lengyel studied to be a physician, and her informed analysis of the treatment given to her and her inmates make this book special. Other accounts of the Holocaust often fall short of its quality and level of detail.Book Review: "It must never be allowed to happen again!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Olga Lengyel's story is extraordinarily heartbreaking and powerful, but I think the book would have been even more effective and much easier to read if she had told her entire story from beginning to end in order instead of jumping around so much.
That small complaint aside this book should still be mandatory reading by anybody who has at least a little bit of humanity in them. Be warned though, Olga does not sugarcoat anything. I had to stop reading on more than one occasion cause I felt sick or thought I was going to cry.
Also read "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosinski.
Book Review: Superb read--grips one's heart.
Summary: 5 Stars
This true story of Olga Lengyel's Auschwitz experience is truly heart wrenching and frank. She relays the most heinous living conditions and brutal "man's inhumanity to man" experiences I have ever read. It is hard to imagine such terrifying ordeals and live to tell about them. Reading a book like this makes all our mediocre problems in life disappear in comparison.
She is a courageous woman and a survivor of indescribable horror, and yet has the hope and desire to go on proving man's insatiable will to live. A very good book for all to read...and remember.
Book Review: A memorable, chilling and intelligent account
Summary: 5 Stars
A realistic of the author's life and consience told in stark and unrelenting detail. The pangs of guilt as she persuades her Mother and son to join the ranks of the old and very young during the selection, believing them protected from brutal work only to make the shocking later discovery - their line led to death. The moral question of delivering live babies in camp - where a Mother was spared death only if the baby was declared stillborn. If not, both met their end immediately. Told with a calm sincerity. Memorable! A book worth reading- and reading again.